GOD - OUR ALPHA AND OMEGA

Pr. James Victor Lubwama

Revelations 22:13 (NLT)

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”

Everything that we do including; decision making, projects, business ventures, marriage, ministry and career paths should all start with God. They should all be according to the will of God because He is the beginning - there should be a word from God before anything happens.

When you put God first, He also prioritizes what you are doing and you can never be the last. God will always have the final say in our lives if we give Him the number one position. God can never usher us into He wont sustain and finish; but whatever He begins, he completes. Philippians 1:6 (GNT) says; 
“And so I am sure that God, who begun this good work in you, will carry it on until it is finished”

Let the foundations of our plans be established in the Lord; for He knows the itinerary, outcome and finale of whatever we undertake or try to pursue. The bible says in Isaiah 46:10 (NLT) says; 
“Only I can tell you the future before it even happens”

Many things we do or the projects we venture in fail because they aren't started by God. Don't rush to do anything before you consult God because He is the Alpha and Omega, and once He starts something or gives you a green light to do something, there are no failures and dead-ends; He accomplishes to perfection whatever He starts - for He perfects that which concerns Him. 

We have initiated projects, started businesses, entered partnerships, relocated to first world countries, switched careers, founded ministries but then later we witness subtraction instead of multiplication. Why? Because at the foundation stage, God wasn't the Alpha. The bible says in Proverbs 1:24-29 (NLT) that;

"You ignored my advice 25 and rejected the correction I offered. So I will laugh when you are in trouble! 26 I will mock you when disaster overtakes you—when calamity overtakes you like a storm, 27 when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone, and anguish and distress overwhelm you. “When they cry for help, I will not answer. 28 Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me. For they hated knowledge 29 and chose not to fear the LORD. They rejected my advice."

A couple of years ago, God recalled me from the city and instructed me to move to Nangabo village and serve His people. It's never easy to the leave the rosy life in the city and settle for the village mud and dust; but because it was God's mission and He was the author - Alpha, i obeyed. The land for the establishment of our church premises was offered freely by someone God had instructed. It was a bushy parcel of land that needed a lot of intensive landscaping but from the inception to the current stage; from the tree shade to a bent papyrus structure, from an iron sheet temporary casing  to a solid structure, I have never seen God forsake us because He was and still is the Alpha in all we do. 

The will of God will never take you where His grace cannot sustain you. If he gave you a job, he will sustain you and also see you grow from a junior position to a managerial level. Don’t do things impulsively but rather take instructions and directions from the Holy Spirit - let God lead the way; for if God is your first, you will never be the last. But if God is not your Alpha, He will never be your Omega; for He will never finish what He did not start!

Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NLT) 

“But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. 8 They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.”