And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God (Revelation 3:14).
‘Amen’ is the very last word of the Bible, as if everything between Genesis and Revelation were a prayer culminating in that final word, the holy ‘so be it’ of predestinating power and glory – not ‘so be it’ but so be HIM, the Lord Jesus Christ. So be Christ, who from eternity within the Godhead purposed to create a world; the world would be permitted to fall; the chosen within the world would be redeemed from the fall; the world in its fallen condition would endlessly refuse the advances of Christ and have only itself to blame for denying the culmination of all things, the Amen.
Our own personal Amens are often clouded with doubt, fear, tremblings, distractions. At other times they are filled with gratitude, thanksgiving, wonder and holy inclinations. The Amen of God, by contrast, is eternally at peace within Himself, unable to fret, to worry, to regret, to lament, to repent. While some may struggle with the holy paradoxes of predestination, damnation, incarnation, inscripturation and other things which have divided, fractured and marred the professing church from our human perspective, from the divine perspective the Amen is perfect, all encompassing, holy and complete.
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