Revelation 22:13 and 16b: “I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last…I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
The young woman at the restaurant flashed her engagement ring to the five other young ladies seated at her table.
“It’s so HUGE! Is it real?” one girl asked.
“I didn’t know Dave had that much money,” another chimed in.
“I’d get it appraised, and then insured. In that order,” offered yet another guest.
In a world full of fake jewels, furs, purses—even flowers—conversations like this are not uncommon. The quest for what is real is an ongoing one. No one wants to be outwitted or fall for a counterfeit, a reproduction, a copy.
We all want the “real deal”, don’t we? We have an aversion to being duped.
So it is with people. We want to know that our friends are really our friends. That they don’t pretend to be our friends to our faces, and then talk about us behind our backs. We want to be able to depend on the fact that they are who they say they are.
The Bible tells us that we can be sure that Jesus is who He claims to be. That He cannot—and does not—ever lie. His Word assures us of who He is and that we can truly depend on Him to do what He says He will do. He keeps His promises. He never fails. He never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
One day, believers will meet Him in Heaven. We will see Him “face-to-face.”
We are not waiting to see a phony. We are looking forward to seeing our God, our Savior, our Lord. The true and Living Word…in all His Glory…our Bright and Morning Star!
