The End?

God told Noah, “The end of all flesh is come before Me”. Yet it wasn’t the end for Noah but a transition to a new beginning.  God told Ezekiel, “The end, the end, the end has come”, yet God promised restoration to the captives. When the Bible tells us today, “The end of all things is at hand,” it is the transition from one time period into another.

Some things ought to end: “Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end” (Psalm 7:9).  We long for the for the day when our faith will give way to sight, and our patient waiting for Christ’s return is over. We anticipate the future where, “There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be anymore pain; for the former things are passed away” (Revelation 21:4). 

The world says, “All good things must come to an end.” But it’s not true.  God has “neither beginning of days nor end of life,” and good things He’s given us here are “foretastes” of things to come. When we commit our lives to Christ, our relationship is described by God as both “abundant” and “eternal”. It will only grow richer and sweeter.

The Bible tells us these days are like the transition period at the end of a pregnancy. Transition is the hardest part of a labor, yet it is also the shortest. Jesus said, “A woman in travail has sorrow, because her hour has come, but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world” (John 16:21). The pain ends, joy comes, a new chapter of life begins.

These days of evil are about to end, so the glorious joys ahead can begin. Maranatha.

(Devotional by Lisa Cataford)