Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God is the Beginning. He is the starting line; he is where the gun goes off. Christ enrolled you in the race of real life with his death. Life begins only with Jesus. You can’t start your life and add Jesus later—your life only begins when you surrender all to Christ. He was the one who simply is, and who is no slave and space, but invented both.

God is the End. He is the finish line, the over-arching aim of our life. The target we aim for, to know, to love, to be filled up by. He drives us home after the race. This life will end with a new life with Jesus, face-to-face for eternity. That day is the hope which makes today make sense. Heaven is only heaven because God is there; it is only getting everything you’ve ever wanted because Christ is the fulfillment of every desire of the heart he gave us, whether you know that or not.

Revelation 21:6
He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life."