The ultimate beginning and end of all things is one and the same. God, as the ultimate source of all things, is responsible for where it is all heading. Thus God is referred to as the Alpha and the Omega in Christianity. It is a symbol of God’s comprehensiveness, both spatially and temporally. Our perspective is incredibly limited because we rarely consider things from the perspective of eternity, and even when we do, we really don’t know much about what came before us or what will come after. We only know that there was this vast time before our births from which we somehow spring, and there will be a similar vastness after our death, concerning which we hope to have some share in. We are wise to consider these things with a modicum of humility, because we are specks in the cosmos, floating on a tiny blue ball that is itself a speck. But we are a part of the cosmos, a part of the ultimate reality into which our minds give us some insight. We should be awestruck to consider that we are part of this great chain of being. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” Revelation 22:13 NIV
