Who runs your Universe?

UV 720/10,000 Who runs the Middle? “I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” Revelation 22 v 13 Most believers do acknowledge God as the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End but they remain masters of what happens in the middle-with their own lives, time, talents and resources they do what they please. We acknowledge Him at the beginning and end of the week, the beginning and end of the day and at the beginning and end of our projects. The rest of the time we mind our own business. We sometimes resort to Him again when we are at our wit’s end and need Him as a crisis manager. God revealed Himself to Moses with the first two words of this uni-verse: “ I AM”. Anyone’s identity originates from Him. Anyone who uses the pronoun “I” is acknowledging that he or she begins and ends in Him. The word “ am” means that “I” exist on account of God, exist for Him, exist with Him. He is all who we need in this life for success, victory, joy, power, meaning, purpose and fulfilment. He is involved in our existential struggles. He advices us in our existential dilemmas. He is faithful to us from before we were knit together in our mothers’ wombs. But, soon after we are born, we somehow become wiser and we even question and doubt His very existence. He got His hands dirty putting man together for the first time. He would not mind doing it again and again. The very word “ WORD” has a story to tell. His Word of love created the WORLD. He is not a hands off Creator but a very “hands on” One. As the “ First”, He takes the front and gives us leadership. As the “Last”, He ensures no one is left behind, even the weakest or slowest. He provides the back up and the cover from behind. He is the center and focus of our own little uni-verse- the totality of our lives, our goals, our relationships, our work, our challenges, our successes and failures, our joys and sorrows.. God’s business of saving people is our business and our business is His business. This implies that we confess to Him our weaknesses. We cannot afford to hide anything from Him. We confide in Him our secrets. We consult Him from time to time. We borrow spiritual capital from Him that He invests in our lives. That spiritual capital may be a word of knowledge or wisdom, a word of encouragement or affirmation, a word of warning or rebuke. We rejoice with Him in every little triumph. We worship Him not just at the end of the week with praise and songs but with sighs, little gestures, little thoughts, emotions and actions right through our days and nights. Our only constraint is that we cannot see Him as we communicate. We cannot hear His reply most of the time we are talking with Him. But, we can see and read His visible Word and hear His voice through it. We do experience Him right through the day, right through the week and right through our lives. Prateep V Philip