Do you long for certainty? Would you like to know everything will work out? Do you wish you knew someone you could count on all the time? Would you like to know you will be properly rewarded for your work? Do you there is someone who has been there from the beginning?
Certainty can be a challenge to acquire. Believing everything will work out can be hard. Having a friend or family member to count on can be allusive. Being rewarded for hard work may seem to never happen. Yet, there is someone who we can count on every single day.
Jesus will return one day. Yet, we do not know when that will be. Due to that uncertainty, we find it difficult to rely on the reward He will reward us with. Notice that He will reward us for the work we do. Believing in Him is one piece of the work, but it is not all of it. There is so much more work we can do, not the least of which is to pray for one another.
Jesus claims He is the Beginning and the End. He was there before time began. He was there when the world was created. He was there when each animal was created. He was there when the first people were created. Jesus will also be there when time comes to an end. He will continue to be with us for eternity. Jesus has given us many promises but none more important than we will be rewarded when this life is over, and He will be with us forever.
I pray we all trust Jesus will return. I pray we know He will reward us for the work we have done. I pray each one of us look forward to spending eternity with Jesus. Jesus will return. Jesus will reward us. He is Alpha and Omega. He is First and Last. He is Beginning and End.
Revelation 22:12-13 “See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
Marty Pressey 