95 END
95 END
Almost everything in and about this world will end. [The only thing that won’t end is God, His kingdom and His word.]
An end does not mean that it will cease to exist but simply means that it will stop being what it is and will change into something else.
A toy that brakes will become garbage or be recycled into something else, a worn out house will rot or be burned and will become food for worms or pollution or a tree that is cut down will be built into something else; a piece of furniture or a box, maybe.
Even a living soul will change after its human body dies; it will be moved from the dead body to a place of peace or torment, depending on how and why the soul thought and acted.
That’s the point; everything that ends will be changed into something else and have a new beginning.
We pay on a debt and, when the debt is paid, move the money that we are earning, to another bill or purchase.
We buy a car and, when we are done with it, sell it to someone else that will use it or resell it to use it some more or recycle it whole or piece by piece.
We take a vacation that starts at a certain time and ends at a certain time.
There are times when the beginning and the end happen over a period of time; hours, days, years or decades. We decide to sell our house but the process take days to complete; the house is not ours but it is not theirs until that process is finalized.
Our lives started as a spark of life when our father’s sperm joined with our mother’s egg. Our time in the womb ended when we were born. Our limited mobility ended when we learned to walk. Our youthful thinking of ourselves should end when we become responsible for others; marriage, our children being born, our promotion to an authority position or our elderly parents’ inability to perform independently should be this ending.
Our lives should be spent preparing for endings and beginnings but, in today’s world, everyone is trying to keep everything in their lives the same. They want their children to stay children, their income to stay above their outgoing, their home to stay new, their car to stay clean and working well, their health to stay youthful, etc.
We cling to the things of the past, trying to keep them the same so they do not change, because that is how we remember them and know how to deal with them. That is our security; everything staying the same, don’t rock the boat, don’t change, don’t end.
We are continually struggling against the very thing that we cannot stop and hoping, against hope, that we can stop it; instead of expecting and preparing for it.
We are shocked when someone that was sick for a long time dies, horrified when someone who did not care for others kills or is killed by their own actions, stunned by catastrophes that we, ourselves, helped to bring about or overjoyed by an event that we hoped for and were working for, even though we did not expect it.
Every beginning has an end but we spend so much time preparing for the process that we are consumed to the point of blindness for the fact that it will end; leaving what it will become after that end for someone else to decide.
God gave us power over the endings, too, which gives us the power over the new beginnings; now is the time to start preparing for the end, before it happens and give some thought to the new beginning.
