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The Final Word

by Jerry Ousley  
2/07/2009 / Christian Living

Did you ever argue with your mother? I tried a few times when I was a kid. I want to say right off the bat that it isn't advisable to argue with a woman who carries a switch in her purse. Today a lot of folks would get all up in the air against a mother who would carry such a concealed weapon. They would try to say that it was abusive to take a limber, narrow sprout off a tree and hit a child with it. But let me tell you, she didn't have to use it much anyway. It had a way of letting you know that she meant business and it taught me many a lesson. I want to add that I don't believe in abusing a child. However, if a few more mothers carried switches in their purses I'd say we'd have a lot more behaved children and a whole lot less delinquent children. That's my opinion anyway.

We knew that Mom had that switch in her purse. We also knew that we could talk back to her once or maybe twice and get away with it. But the third time she had a look that she could throw at you without saying a word and we knew that we were on the verge of crossing the line. If we did the next thing we got was a warning and if we were stupid enough to press the issue the switch would come out of hiding and the game was over except for the weeping and wailing.

More often than not the look was enough for me. That was it. It meant that "no" was the final answer and there weren't any "life-lines" to spend. That was it, finished, the end.

Getting the final word seems to be something that most of us think we've got to have. When people have an argument whoever gets the final word feels like, in a sense, they have won. It doesn't seem to matter who's really right and who's really wrong, but who got to say the last thing. The final word has made or broken marriages. Stop and think about it . . . is it really that important who gets to say the last thing? The truth will eventually come out anyway.

In Revelation 3:14 Jesus identifies Himself as "The Amen." We hear that word a lot in church. Sometimes people say it when the minister has said something profound or rip-tearing truthful. We hear it most often at the end of a prayer. What the word means literally is "so be it." It means let it be as has been spoken. It is the final word and Jesus identified Himself with it.

People in the world can argue all they want about whether Jesus Christ is real or not. Some claim Him to be merely a good teacher who was killed before His time, while others paint Him to be an imposter saying that the resurrection was all a big cover-up by His disciples. Even the Jewish leaders in Jesus' day claimed this.

But whether we want to believe it or not, Jesus will have the final word. He is the "Amen." He's going to show up some day, at God's appointed time and the world will stand back gasping at His appearance. It will be the final proof. All arguments will be resolved about the issue and false teachings will be refuted.

But His identity as the "Amen" is not only for the purpose of knowing who's right and who's wrong. He is also the final word on everything else too. He is the final word on sickness and disease. He's the final word on the temptations of the devil. He's also the final word on whether we can be saved or lost. He's got that. There's no sense arguing about it because He will have the last say. Frankly I'm glad for that so I'm going to stop and let the "Amen" have the final word.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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