April 20

Spiritual reality has this outstanding characteristic, that it bears no mark of time. The time-factor vanishes the instant you touch that reality. Take, for example, prophecy. From the human point of view there is such a thing as prophecy, but from the divine point of view no such thing exists.

Our Lord says that he is the First and the Last, the Alpha and Omega; but remember, he is both together, both at once. It is not true that at or time he is First and at another time he is Last; He is the First and Last simultaneously. Nor is it that having for a while been Alpha, he later becomes Omega; he is Alpha and Omega from eternity to eternity.

Of course in the sight of men he is not Omega until he is so manifested, but the sight of God he is Omega now. With me the “I” of yesterday differs from the “I” of today, and the “I” of tomorrow differs still further; but Jesus Christ is the eternal “I AM.”