God & His Attributes
From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God – Psalm 90:2
Because we are such self-centered and existentially focused creatures, it is hard for us to take in the fact that our parents were once teenagers or newlyweds, that there was a time when we did not even exist, or especially that there have been hundreds and hundreds of generations that have lived before and that will live after us, if Christ does not come back first.
But there is one Person who still lives today who witnessed the Constitutional Convention in 1787, who saw Luther nail his 95 theses to the door of Castle Church in 1517, who was present at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, who observed Moses as he led the children of Israel through the Red Sea, who talked with Adam in the Garden of Eden, and who existed in perfect satisfaction before the earth was even created.
God is eternal. He has always existed and always will exist. He predates and will last longer than time. He has no beginning and no end. But the psalmist reminds us of a truth more impressive still: not only has God always existed, but He has always existed as God. He did not have to work His way up to the position or earn the right to be God. He has always been, and will always be, God.
The great comfort of this truth is that God will not only still be here when we grow old and then face death-or when our children grow old and face death-but He will also still be God. His power, His dominion, His wisdom, His love, His goodness will not be diminished in any way by time or circumstances or world events.
What a great encouragement to our faith, to know that we believe in and trust a God Who is eternally God-from everlasting, to everlasting He is God.
With great confidence in Him, rejoice and be glad! A merry heart works better than medicine.
If God be for us, who, then, can be against us? When our enemies, our adversaries, come up wanting to eat up our flesh, they SHALL stumble and fall, Amen. This God is our defense, our shield and buckler. This God is our rock, our high tower, the glory and the lifter of our head.
24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He Who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord, Who made all things, Who alone stretched out the heavens, Who spread out the earth by Myself [who was with Me]?–
25 [I am the Lord] Who frustrates the signs and confounds the omens [upon which the false prophets’ forecasts of the future are based] of the [boasting] liars and makes fools of diviners, Who turns the wise backward and makes their knowledge foolishness,
26 [The Lord] Who confirms the word of His servant and performs the counsel of His messengers, Who says of Jerusalem, She shall [again] be inhabited, and of the cities of Judah, They shall [again] be built, and I will raise up their ruins,
27 Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers,
28 …..Jerusalem, She shall [again] be built, and of the temple, Your foundation shall [again] be laid.
He frustrates the tokens of liars and makes the diviners mad. He turns the wisdom of wise men (deceivers, false prophets, witches and occultists) backwards, so that is boomerangs on them.
That is the God we serve. He is not in a hurry because of time. Time? He is not bound by time but OUR TIMES ARE IN HIS HANDS! I say again, rejoice!
My Times Are In His Hands! Hallelujah!
Ps Toks Oshokoya
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