GOD IS ETERNAL

September 16 

Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,

You are God. Psalm 90:2

Time is a relationship between things in a finite, changing universe.  According to Hebrews 1:2; 11:3, time began when God created the universe (ages). God also created the sun, moon and stars to measure the change (changing universe) in terms of revolutions around the sun (years).  Consequently, God is infinite in His relationship to the duration of time.  We call this eternal.  Because this is true, God is also the ruler of our existence in time (Job 14:5) and the existence of human rulers in time (Dan. 4:17). It is certainly a mindboggling concept to finite humans.  

God alone is eternal. The Bible plainly asserts that God had no beginning, and that He will never end, or die.  He alone possesses eternality in the dual sense (1 Timothy 1:17). We will live forever, but we had a beginning. Personally, I find this very comforting. My God is eternal and immutable. He doesn’t change (Malachi 3:6) and He is eternal. It reminds me of the young pastor’s visit to an elderly saint. Brother Junkins was about 87 years of age. Pastor White went to see him and as he walked into the room this very godly Christian said, “Pastor, I’m dying. For years I have been feasting on the promises of God, but this morning, when I awakened, I could not remember a single one of the promises.  What shall I do?” Pastor White replied, “Brother Junkins, do you think that God will forget His promises?”  A sweet smile came over the face of the old saint as he looked up at his pastor.  “Praise God!” he said.  “That’s wonderful!  He will remember then, won’t He?” Then, the pastor started repeating some of the promises of God to him.  But in a few minutes, Brother Junkins waved his hand and said, “I’m tired, I will just fall asleep and trust Him to remember His promises to me.” 

Ike Graham