The End

Oh, let's see... where to start. There has been so very much that it becomes difficult to think one can simply pick up where one has left off. Yet it seems less so an impossible task than at first. Everything begins, but I believe that not everything must end.

The adage "all good things must come to an end" does not make sense to my mind. Why must all good things come to an end. There is no such phrase which states that "all bad things must come to an end." Why is this so? These ideas that good must end, yet evil is permitted to continue leave a great void in the hearts of those who know this cannot be true.

Let us look. We know that there are several good things that will never come to an end... Jesus the Christ, God's love for humanity, the certainty we as Christians have that there will be a place for us in Heaven -- a place which also will have no end. As for evil, Satan's dominion over the earth will end, the misery on earth will end, and sin will be taken away from us who love the LORD.

This leads me to believe that the phrase, "all god things must come to an end," must have come from a very sad, lost soul. One who looked at the magnificence of the world -- the sky above and the heart within -- and saw nothing. They felt the hopeless emptiness gnawing away at their soul begging for redemption, but refusing to accept the provision that Christ offered. The fleetingness of everything in the world was seen and felt and the lamentation of, "all good things must come to and end," was the only explanation that could be mustered.

Therefore, through the empty eyes of one lost in the darkness, yes, it seems that anything good upon this earth must indeed come to an end. But, for the kindled heart that has been lit by that everlasting fire that is the Holy Spirit -- take joy! For there are things more marvelous that can ever be imagined that will never... NEVER come to an end.