The Great Ending

https://odb.org/MY/2021/08/28/a-great-ending

Revelation 22 is the goal and motivation of every believer, the life eternal promised by John 3:16. It is the great ending, except that it is the start of a new beginning. Somewhat akin to the fairy tales’ happy ever after ending. Fairy tales endings are wishful thinking as life is never a happy ever after experience and yet Revelation 22 is not wishful thinking. It is real and will occur as promised because the Living God said so in His Word as revealed to the Apostle John. Because Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. He is the Bright Morning Star. It will be eternal life living with and a life of fellowship with God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The tree of life that was rightfully ours in the Garden of Eden before the Fall, will rightfully be ours again!

As much as the great ending is such an excellent motivation for us to strive on in our faith, we need to actually strive on in the present. As much as salvation is by grace, there are still good works and faithfulness to God’s plans and purposes for us that we need to pursue while we continue on this journey of faith here on earth in the present.

Well and good that we are assured a great ending. But like every novel that we have read and every movie that we have seen, the plot matters more than the ending. How we write our story, the story of our life, determines what we will present to our Lord when we reach the finish line. Our life story can be like the fruits brought by Cain or the fatted portions from the flocks brought by Abel. On that day, we cannot bring over any of our possessions and achievements but our life story. Did we fulfil God’s plans and purposes for us?

Therefore, let us write our life story with the end in mind so we may present our life to the Lord as our rightful gift for His redeeming grace and sacrifice on the cross for us. Make our life story a story worthy of such a great ending, worthy of a life of eternal fellowship with God and deserving of our right to partake from the tree of life!