When I go to the bookstore, I’ll grab books and read the last few pages. I want to know how it ends. I want to know where we end up. Hollywood executives always read the first and last page of a screenplay, and if the characters don’t change, they toss the script. We inherently want a landing, a safe conclusion, a final punctuation on the sentence of life.
When I first read the Bible for myself, I started at Revelation. I wanted to know if everything was going to be okay. I heard about the Fall of Man and all the ugly things that happened in Genesis; I knew about the flood and the tower of Babel and the incest and the wars. In Revelation, I was overwhelmed. Everything was getting put right again. Justice was unrolling from Heaven, angels speaking with mere men, evil squashed to pieces, healing was all over the place. Since then, I read the Bible very differently. I know that the first page doesn’t get to say everything about us, and we get a landing, a final sentence of victory. We get to win, because God does.
J.S. from Mad About God
J.S. Park: Hospital Chaplain, Skeptical Christian 
I look more and more for the end of the war with every passing day. These thoughts consume me and makes want to tell others.
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Yes. Me too, my brother.
https://jsparkblog.com/2012/04/18/suddenly-wanting-his-return/
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Amen! Our story will always have a good ending when God is included in it (regardless of even the one we have on earth)!
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Yes! Not just a consolation, but the security where we’re all headed.
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Reblogged this on bigkayworld.
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