The End of the Road

Dr. David Calhoun of Covenant Theological Seminary notes:

"The end of the road": are those tragic or happy words? Sometimes, even when the road is good, there is a longing for the end of it. Sometimes, perhaps often, on a long car trip our children ask, "Daddy, how much further? Mommy, when are we going to get there?" And even as we affirm the goodness of life we sometimes ask, "Father, how much longer?"
For the Christian, the words "the end of the road" do not bring fear and uncertainty. Because we know that
finally the path runs not into a tangled wilderness but to the King's own palace in the celestial city. Or, to
think again of Nemerov, it is not a childish hope; it is a "blessed assurance" that at the end of the road there
is a runway. The psalmist wrote, "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord forever." What makes the house of the Lord wonderful is the same truth that makes the
journey good: the Lord is there. Boethius, the sixth-century Christian philosopher, put it this way in prayer: "Thou art the journey and the journey's end." Our catechism teaches us that our chief end is to glorify and enjoy God. Then it adds one more word. . . to glorify and enjoy God forever." That "forever" is heaven. St. Augustine, in the last chapter of his massive City of God, dwells for a few moments on the experience of heaven: "There we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise. Behold what shall be in the end and shall not end." That is the end of the journey.

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