CID

UV 1243/10,000 “CID”
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isaiah 41 v 4
He is the first as He is before the idea of time came into existence. He is the first person in all of space and time and beyond. He is therefore first in all things in our lives. He is the first to be acknowledged and worshipped every morning. He is the first to know all things about our lives. He is the first to declare and teach us all things. He is the first to comfort, inspire, encourage, strengthen and enable us to do all things. He is the audience of one whom we address all the time from our hearts and minds. He is the first to accomplish, plan all things and provide all of our need. He is the first to appreciate us. He is also the first to rebuke us, correct us and chastise us. We human beings on account of our finite existence are subject to the tyranny of time and call periods of time “ tense”- the past tense, present tense and future tense as we are tense about the past, present and future. But all our tension evaporates as we trust the Lord for our past guilt, present challenges and future worries. The past, present and future melts into eternity in the presence of the Lord.

Everything good that can be spelt with the alphabets of any human language has its beginning and its end in Him. We can do this exhaustive alphabet exercise- take any letter in the alphabet, say ‘a’ , then list out all the good things in life that begin with ‘a’ e.g. abilities, accuracy, alacrity, attitudes, ambition, aspiration, articulation, we can realize all these with the help of the Lorrd. Just as all rivers end in the sea, all our efforts also end in Him. Everything that ends in Him is complete, finished and perfected. He outlasts everything and everyone. When the last king or monarch or ruler on earth ends his reign on earth, He still remains sovereign and on the throne. When each day ends and when all our days end, He is with us. He is the last to sleep. He watches over us as a doting parent not as a paid watchman.

He is calling out to individuals in all generations of mankind without regard to age, background, class, status, income, past, present or future. He has wrought or completed the plan of salvation for man. There is nothing left to do except to trust and obey. We will be blessed from first to last, from our beginning to beyond our end. The things in which we are first and last in this lifetime do not matter much except to the extent that it brings glory or praise to His name. He does all things well or excellently. Hence, we can trust Him from beginning to end. When someone asks me for some help that I can do, I send them a message “ CID” meaning “ consider it done.” Similarly, when we entrust some aspect of our life or our challenges to the Lord, we can “ cid.” He declares to us that “ I am He, the “I AM”, the one who can “ do it”, the one who can “ be it”. You can ask “ do what” and “ be what”. That is answered by what we want Him to do in our lives and with our lives, who we want Him to be. If we were unloved, fatherless children, He will be a loving, compassionate Father, if we are lonely and friendless, He will be a Friend forever…

Prateep V Philip