What God Taught Me About Endings

Have you ever gotten way more emotional about something than you expected?

And you’re left perplexed about why this situation unleashed such emotion in you?

I believe that whenever this happens God wants to teach you a profound truth, so make sure you lean in close to God and pay attention when that happens! Here’s what just happened to me…

Two weeks ago I got a new vehicle. Let me tell you it was TIME.

I had driven my old vehicle for 13 years! It was completely miled out.

My kids were in Grades 6 and 4 when we bought it and now they are 27 and 23!

It has taken our family to several family vacations, countless trips to the orthodontist (who was 3 hours away), and a gazillion basketball games when my younger son was on several competitive basketball teams.

If you divide its mileage by the circumference of the earth, it has been around the world EIGHT times.

We decided to donate it to a charity that takes old vehicles.

I arranged for the charity to come pick up my old vehicle.

The day came and as they loaded it up, I was overcome with emotion.

I went into the bathroom to compose myself and talked with God.

“God, my goodness why is this so hard? Why am I mourning this old car when I have an amazing new one to drive?!?!? I was not expecting this! LORD, why is this so emotional?”

The Holy Spirit spoke to my heart immediately, “Because you are at the point of your life where from now on, you will have way more endings than beginnings.”

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I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach. I knew it was true.

More of my life is behind me than before me.

I am in no way afraid of dying.

But endings are hard.

Beginnings, here on earth, feel hopeful, joyful, and expansive.

Think about when you got married, had a baby, or started a job you were excited about.

Endings feel final, limiting, and cold.

Think about getting let go from a job, kids moving out, sickness, or funerals.

Endings are hard.

But they are supposed to be hard.

Because they remind us that it’s broken here.

And this is not our home.

Jesus came so that we could have an unhindered relationship with the Father.

(Thank you, Jesus!!)

But everything else doesn’t get restored until later.

Revelation 21:1-4

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:

“Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man,

and He will dwell with them.

They will be His people,

and God Himself will be with them as their God.

‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’

and there will be no more death

or mourning or crying or pain,

for the former things have passed away.”

The tense here is important. We are in the process of the former things passing

It hasn’t all passed YET.

Let’s keep going in Revelation…

Revelation 21: 5-6

And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.” And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

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Earlier I said that beginnings here on earth feel hopeful and expansive.

The next time Jesus comes we will have that hopeful, joyful, expansive feeling a million times stronger than ANY time we’ve had it here on earth and there will BE no end to it!! ❤️

The tears I’ve shed for any ending here on earth will be NOTHING!!! I will have completely forgotten about it in the light of being FULLY present with my loving Creator!!!

No more death, no more tears, no more pain!!

Oh my sweet friends, this, THIS is what our hearts long for isn’t it???

We KNOW deep down that THAT is how things should be.

They aren’t.

Yet.

But they will be.

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Until then, we must live with Godly purpose amidst painful endings.

What healing will feel when God Himself tenderly wipes our tears and says,

“Welcome home Child. I’ve been waiting for you.”

In passionate purpose,

Dorothy