This is an important question. Where are you looking for love, hope, truth, grace, relationships, authority, perspective?
We go where we look.
We will become like that which we look at.
For some we look in the past.
This is the “good old days”. This is appropriate and we at times need to look behind us to realize where God has brought us from. Our text reminds us that in the beginning God was. He is the Alpha.
For some we look to the future.
We can and must look to the future. This can be another form of escape. I have meet people of the past who were so consumed by the future events they were of no earthly good. We learn in our text that God is teh Omega, the End. Yes we must look to the future but we cannot stay there. Our text reminds us of this as well.
Our focus is Christ alone.
This is where we look for. We cannot escape our present reality but just going backwards or forwards.
Behold! Look! See!
This is the point of the beginning of verse 4. Notice this isn’t God speaking, yet.
God is gentle, kind and caring.
This is the point, I believe, of verse 5.
God makes all things new!
Now God speaks and lets us know what we are to remember.
We must persevere!
The point of letting us know what will happen in the future is not so we just sit down and wait. We are to actively overcome our present trials. We are to actively be part of advancing the Gospel of Jesus. Salvation means something today!
God has said it, it is done.
God is trustworthy and true. His words are authority. He alone holds these traits. When God says it, it is true!
