We need the sweep of Paul’s vision to see Christ past, present, and future.  No wonder so many Christians are pale, sickly, anemic: they do not know what a Christ they have.  If Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, Beginning and Ending, Author and Finisher of our faith, if by Him all things consist, it follows that everything centers and converges in Him.  ~Vance Havner, “By Him All Things Consist”