From Everlasting to Everlasting

Psalm 90:2 ~ "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God."

​It is hard to fathom from this limited, temporary and time-governed world, that God has always been. Our lives have a definitive beginning, a clear duration, and an eternal end. Interestingly, we can handle more courageously the eternal ending--that is, our future everlasting life--than we can handle the eternal reality of God.

He is "from everlasting." That is, He is from before time ever had a moment of expression. He is and always has been, but even using the word "always" infers a concept of time that cannot be applied to God. God does not exist in time--time exists in Him. (Does your brain hurt yet?)

He is beyond our awareness, for our understanding of all things comes through our capability of observation and imagination. And yet, those two functions of our comprehension cannot comprehend God.

What is mankind to do? 

Well, what often happens is we take our observations, mingle it with our imaginations, and come up with a god that is not God--one that suits our thoughts, even when our thoughts stretch out as far as our imagination can take us. And thus, history and societies are filled with all manner of deities that satisfy the mind of man.

If we are not to take our imaginations and couple it with our observations, then how are we to know this God who is from everlasting to everlasting? How can we know the One who is beyond our comprehension? There is only one way.

We must know Him through His own revelation of Himself. 

And how, you ask, did God reveal Himself? Through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Consider what is written in Colossians 1:15, "He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation." Jesus, Himself, said, "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9).

Let me, even now, implore you to open your heart to His word where He has revealed Himself. Turn to the pages of His revelation--the Holy Bible. If you do not seek Him there, you will not know Him at all. He is beyond our comprehension. He is greater than our observation and more than our limited imaginations can invent. But He does want you to know Him and so He has revealed Himself in His Son and it is found in the pages of His Holy Word.

He is also, "to everlasting." And that, beloved, should give you great hope and joy. For in Jesus, all who are redeemed will be with the Father forever. He will be our God, and we will be His people (Revelation 21:3).

There is no ending with God, for God does not exist in a state of time. When creation comes to an end God will remain, for God is not confined in creation--creation exists in Him. He will remake the heavens and the earth for He is the one who made them in the first place and they are and will always be sustained by Him. 

God Almighty needs nothing to sustain Him. He is self-existent. And God, being from and to everlasting, will bring all those who have been redeemed into the everlastingness of Him. 

You will have no greater thoughts than to think on God, and you have no other resource of revelation concerning God than His word. Meditate on it, be drawn into it, and learn from Him all that He would reveal.

In His Grace,
​Pastor Michael

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