They say,” Nothing lasts forever.”
They are wrong.
Three things last forever: God, His Word, and people.
God is Eternal
There’s never been a time when God didn’t exist.
He wasn’t born. He wasn’t created.
He is. He has always been. And He will always continue to be.
Eternal.
“Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God” (Psalm 90:2 NASB).
God’s Word
Our eternal God has said that His Word will last forever.
“The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever” (Isaiah 40:8 NASB).
Even before God spoke His Word to create the world, and gave His Word to the Bible’s authors for us to read, His Word existed from eternity past and will remain into eternity future.
People
We are not God.
(I forget this truth at times.)
We aren’t God, but He created us to live forever.
Remembering that everyone is eternal should put an urgency into our hearts to share the truth of the Gospel message with others. And it should give us comfort.
A friend of mine reminded me of the comfort this truth offers when he spoke of a couple whose child lived only two brief minutes. Their next child lived only two months.
The heartbroken couple couldn’t understand why God would create children to only live for two minutes and two months.
Another friend encouraged them that God didn’t create them to live that short. He created them to live forever. Only their time on earth was brief—painfully brief.
The couples’ two children are more alive in heaven now than they ever were on earth.
None of us will live forever on earth—we can thank sin and death for that—but our souls will live forever.
Where we live forever depends on how we respond to Jesus Christ and His gospel message.
Knowing God is Eternal Makes a Difference Today
Knowing God is eternal helps us live today. We don’t have to scramble to “have it all” here on earth because we’re spending eternity there in God’s glorious kingdom.
God works each day with eternity in mind.
Too often, though, we fixate on today. We want God to fix our problems and this world now.
But, if we knew everything God knows about yesterday, today, or forever, we’d do and time everything exactly as He has and does.
So, maybe we don’t really want Him to fix everything on our timetable or in our way. We just think we do because we don’t know what we don’t know.
Instead, what delights our hearts most is to trust and rest in God’s eternal plan.
Knowing God is eternal helps us put today into perspective.
God isn’t in a hurry. He has forever to work out His plan, and it’s a great one. Actually, it’s a perfect plan.
Sometimes I’m impatient as I pray for things.
I’ve laid awake for hours, begging God for the answer my heart craves—answers I imagine must also be His heart’s desire. Peace eludes me until I remember He’s eternal.
God is not always in a hurry to answer my prayers, but not because He doesn’t care. Because He always knows the right thing to do at the right time.
I can rest because God never does.
What God’s Word Says about His Eternal Nature
“For thus says the high and exalted One who lives forever,” (Isaiah 57:15 NASB).
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“Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God” (Psalm 90:2 NASB).
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“Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’” (Isaiah 46:9,10 NASB).
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“And God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM’” (Exodus 3:14 NASB).
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How will knowing that God is eternal make a difference in your life today?
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