Eternity of God
God is endless.
Absolute everlastingness.
His continuance is from everlasting to everlasting, and knows neither beginning nor end….
Out of this we gather that only God has true immortality or eternity.
A.W. Tozer writes in Knowledge of the Holy, that
"Time marks the beginning of created existence, and because God never began to exist it can have no application to Him. God lives in an everlasting now, He has no past and no future.
When time words occur in the Scriptures they refer to our time, not to His.
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God.
That God appears at time’s beginning is not too difficult to comprehend, but that he appears at the beginning and end of time simultaneously is not so easy to grasp; yet it is true. For God everything that will happen has already happened. He sees the end and the beginning in one view.
Since God is eternal, He can be and continue forever to be the one safe home for His time-driven children."
God’s Infinitude
Limitless, He knows no bounds, He is measureless
Without limit or boundary.
We cannot cross a line and say,
“Wow here God is not; here is a limit which He has not passed, and cannot pass;”
“Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.” Jeremiah 23:23, 24
“O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell,
behold, thou art there.” Psalm 139:1, 5-8
This attribute rightly reflected on, will always awaken adoration and godly fear.
A. W. Tozer comments on the infinitude of God as follows,
"Because God’s nature is infinite, everything that flows out of it is infinite also.
God is without growth or addition or development. Nothing in God is less or more, or large or small. He is what He is in Himself. Without qualifying thought or word. He is simply God.
For God time does not pass, it remains; and those who are in Christ share with Him all the riches of limitless time and endless years. God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work.
For those out of Christ, time is a devouring beast; before the sons of the new creation time crouches and purrs and licks their hands. The foe of the old human race becomes the friend of the new.
In God there is life enough for all and time enough to enjoy it."
This awesome and amazing God has chosen to reveal Himself to us, to you and me.
We could never have come to understand or even imagine the existence of such a glorious God on our own - being spiritually blind and dead in our sins we would have been forever lost and undone - yet the Most High God stooped down and made Himself known to us.
How can we spend the time He has given us seeking after everything but Him?
After receiving even the tiniest glimpse of who He is, how can we keep from longing to know, love and experience Him more?
Our hearts cannot contain such wondrous longings. How can we not, with our whole being, cry out in worship and adoration of our Great God?
