Prayer To The God Who Knows The Beginning and the End

Friday August 21, 2020

Truth

The Beginning and The End

Each day as I sit down to my computer to pray and prepare for this little video I wonder what God will put into my mind in my heart.

Each morning I love to sit by my living room window in a chair that was my mother’s as I read God’s word and pray. I’m grateful for those who prepare devotional meditations, for those who down through time have organized cycles of reading so we can have a steady and organized way to read through all of Gods Word over set periods of time.

It’s often in those moments that a thought or a theme will come to mind that I will later share with you as we come together to pray.

Today that theme is about God being the beginning and the end and holding everything in between. That gives me great comfort today and I trust it will You as well. Let’s pray:

I am the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord,

who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:8

We’re so grateful God, that You are the Alpha and the Omega, the who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. That truth puts everything else in our lives into perspective and fills our hearts with a settledness that nothing around us is doing these days.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 13:8

We are thankful that as we go through this day that You are the God who has come close to us in Jesus Christ and that Your unfailing love displayed through Him is true and available to us today. When we fail you have promised us forgiveness through Jesus. Where we feel distant and alone You bring us close to You and one another through Jesus. Where we feel weak and wonder if circumstances will overwhelm us we remember that we have the same mighty power in us that raised Jesus from the dead. Jesus Christ is the same in us and for us – yesterday, today, and forever. We allow our hearts to be settled in this solid truth.

And while we are unsettled by the ever changing condition of the pandemic here in our area and around the world and what seems to be a very long season of uncertainty and trouble we want to remember today what Your Word reminds us so clearly:

In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,

and the heavens are the work of your hands.

They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out

like a garment. Like clothing you will change them

and they will be discarded. But you remain the same,

and your years will never end.

Psalm 102:25-27

We don’t know how things will go in these next months. Quite frankly we don’t even know if we will live or die but we do know that:

For this God is our God forever and ever;

he will be our guide even to the end.

Psalm 48:14

And so once again today we give You thanks that You are with us every day, that You are watching over us with great attention to every detail of our lives, and You are journeying with us, making all the power of heaven available to us to face whatever challenges come our way. With a great Saint from hundreds of years ago, St. Ignatius we pray:

Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory,

my understanding, my whole will, all that I have

and all that I possess. You gave it all to me, Lord;

I give it all back to you. Do with it as you will,

according to your good pleasure.

Give me your love and your grace;

for with this I have all that I need.

Amen