All In All

11“He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him ebe righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.” 12“And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” 14Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
Revelation 22: 11 - 14 NKJV

He is not simply a standby.  A safety net in times of trial and tribulation.  He is always to be remembered.  He is never to be forgotten.  We revere Him not because we are called to.  But because it is He who loved us first.  He is the the Alpha and the Omega.  The Begining and the End.  The First and the Last of all creation.  He is our All in All.  To put God in a box only to be opened in times of trouble and need does not do Him a disservice.  When we place our heavenly Father in a box, we do ourselves a disservice.  He is the first thing we see in the morning, and the very last thing we think of at night.  He knew us before we were born, and He will welcome us home once again when our time draws near.  In Him we live, move and have our being.  He is closer than our next breath, not far from each one of us.  He created us in His very image.  He breathed into us the breath of life, that He might forever live through us.  He is our All in All.
All in All.  When we think of everything that that term means, we still cannot grasp the majesty and greatness of our Lord.  A majesty so immense that Moses himself had to hide his face from the radiant glory of his Lord {Exodus 34:35}.  Indeed, what is there about our own lives that God has not touched?  Where is it that we can look where we will not see Him reflected in His creation?  This is something echoed by Dennis on more than a few of our hiking trips.  That we shall see our heavenly Father in all of His creation.  After all, it was by His spoken word that all that we see was created.  Whereupon He declared all that He had created...good.

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not acomprehend it.
John 1: 1 - 5 NKJV

It is foolish to think that we, the crown jewel of our heavenly Fathers creation, could be seperated from Him in any way.  Yet this is exactly the lie which some people believe.  Satan lied to Eve when he said that she could ultimately "be like God" should she eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil {Genesis 3:4-5}.  Be like God?  Be the All in All?  Yet, this is the very same deception which Lucifer himself had believed in his heart, that he could "be like the Most High."{Isaiah 14:14}.  Make no mistake, Lucifer himself was part of our Lords creation as well.  Yet, he chose to ascend higher than the All in All.  This lie did not work for Lucifer, and certainly will not work for us either.  For there is NOTHING that has ever touched nor ever will touch our lives that God has not been intimately involved in.  We are His children {1 John 3:1}.  There is indeed no seperation between our heavenly Father and all which He has created.  He is the First and the Last.  He is our All in All.

1Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know bus, because it did not know Him. 2Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
1 John 3: 1 - 2 NKJV

~Scott~