Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Last.
“Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord – with the first of them and with the last – I am he.”
(Isaiah 40:4, NIV)
We need this reminder now and then.
God asks this question, not because He does not know who He is; but so that in answering the question, we ourselves remember who He is.
He is the One responsible for the very first generation for He created both Adam and Eve. He is the One who has brought every generation since and directed the paths of each one.
Here He reminds us that He alone has been the one directing all events and He alone is sovereign over history.
But the question also tells us He has been guiding our destinies from the beginning of time. Our days unfold according to His plan.
This verse should bring assurance that God is with us always. He has gone on before us, and is always working on our behalf.
“I, the Lord –
with the first of them
and
with the last –
I am he.”
Today I am joining … Five Minute Friday and Faith On Fire and Faith ”˜N Friends .
Amen! What a beautiful assurance that God is with us””always. We don’t have to worry or freak out. God. Is. With. Us.
Amen! Till the end …
God is first and last, not only in the world but in me. What a beautiful reminder!
And with our children and those yet to come. Such hope!
It’s still and cold this morning
and Deguello comes too clear.
Death lies in wait, a-borning;
Lord, will you be here?
There can be, now, no retreat
from the panoply of threats,
an now I hear the marching feet,
the click of bayonets.
The wall will hold a little while,
my strength a little longer.
Was this worth it, or futile?
Could I have been much stronger?
And now the final hour’s come;
is my battle lost…or won?
Deguello is a bugle call, appropriated from the Moors by Spain, and most famously used at the Alamo. It means ‘slit throat’.
If you’d like to hear it, here’s a short clip from the 2004 remake of ‘The Alamo’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKD5TgHWyxM
Enveloped by his love–first, last. Before and after.
So much to be grateful for here.
According to his plan! Some days that’s easier to trust than others.
It is, Tara, and He gives us the strength to keep on trusting.