The Eternal God

Psalm 90:2 “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”

One short study of the doctrine of eternal God explains that this verse was written by Moses as the children of Israel prepared to enter the Promised Land. The lesson states that perhaps the most basic of all the attributes of God is that He “inhabits eternity” He is “from everlasting to everlasting,” the God who ever was and ever shall be.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place.”

Creatures of time cannot really comprehend the idea of eternity (an infinite past and infinite future, never-ending). “But who made God?” children ask. “Nobody made God,” we answer. “He always was.” The alternative would be to believe in the eternity of “space” and “matter,” but these in themselves are utterly incapable of producing our complex universe. God, however, is an adequate “First Cause” to explain all the effects of our infinite, intricate cosmos.

God spoke in Job 38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.”

There are many other Scriptures assuring us that God has always been.

Psalm 93:2 “Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting.”

Isaiah 40:28 “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.”

Isaiah 46:9-10a “Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning.”

And this truth applies to God the Son as well as to God the Father.

John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”

The Lord Jesus could say in Revelation 22:13, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”

We find it somewhat easier to contemplate the fact that God will live forever.

Jeremiah 10:10  “But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King.”

The most glorious fact of all is that this living God did also become man, in the person of Christ Jesus, and He did die. But He soon defeated death and now can say in Revelation 1:18, “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen.” And now, since “we believe that Jesus died and rose again, . . . so shall we ever be with the Lord” - 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 17.

Blessed in Christ