“And they will reign forever and ever.”
(Revelation 22:5)

Thoughts… Today we come to the end of the Bible, and in this chapter, the description of the beginning of the rest of eternity. As beautifully alluring as John’s words are, they certainly cannot capture what it will be like in God’s presence for all eternity.

But we do know that no longer will there be the taint of sin’s curse (verse 3). We know that evil will no longer be permitted in God’s recreated world (verse 15). We know that God himself will physically be among us (verses 3-5). We know that in God’s eternity, we are invited to experience the full satisfaction of our beings that only God can supply (verse 17).

And we know, even though time no longer exists there, that a billion years into eternity we will be no closer to exhausting God’s love and grace than when we first begun. The end will just be the beginning of dwelling with God himself in the perfection of his glorious presence.

And all we can say is what John said, “Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!”

Prayer… Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

One More Thing… “One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, ‘Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.’” —Henry Ward Beecher