Do you remember when most movies closed out with two words in big letters, “The End”? They were usually accompanied with scenes of two people riding off into the sunset or a wedding or a birth. The end was a new beginning. There is something psychological about our desire for endings. The Bible is filled with endings. The Book of Revelation has an ending. “Even so come Lord Jesus. Amen.” Matthew has the Gospel Commission. Mark closes with, “Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere.” Luke doesn’t end because he follows with Acts. John ends, “Jesus did many other things as well. If everyone of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”
We like endings. We even hear clocks say, “Tick, Tock”. Which is a beginning and an end even though they really just say, “Tick, Tick.” We seem to be wired so because we look forward to new beginnings. After each end comes something inexperienced and we love serendipities. I love the idea of tomorrow because something grand might happen. I love going to the mailbox because there might be a gift for Spring of Life or a nice letter from someone.
Adam and Eve must have loved the end of each day because we are told the Lord would visit them and walk with them in the Garden. How grand that must have been! As Christians we talk a lot about the end of the world. We don’t really mean the end of the planet we really are referring to a revamping of an Eden like place where sin has been removed. Ends come with new beginnings.
Written by Roger Bothwell on August 16, 2013
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