Geoffrey R. Kirkland
Christ Fellowship Bible Church
The ETERNALITY OF GOD means that God has no beginning and no end. From everlasting to everlasting, He is God (Psalm 90.2). How amazing to think that the God, the one and only God, has perfect, timeless, infinite, unfathomable duration — without beginning, without ending, and without succession. God does not grow older today than He was yesterday. He is not learning or growing in knowledge with the passing of years. God remains eternal, both now and ever.
Amazingly and unfathomably, God is timeless and unchangeable and therefore always perfect. He cannot grow or improve or become better. He never needs improvement or revising or editing. He never needs to change with the times and become more relevant to His creatures. God proclaimed about Himself: “Even from eternity, I am He” (Isaiah 43.13).
Therefore, this eternity of God means that He is the sure and steadfast dwelling place for all His creatures (Deuteronomy 33.27). He is Lord over time, existing both above time and within time for His own glory and purposes. He is totally free from the passing of time and never hindered or limited by the demands of time and urgency of the moment. God is never frustrated or stressed out!
Additionally, the eternity of God comforts the child of God because He is an “eternal Father” (Isaiah 9.7). For the true child of God who knows Jesus as Savior, God has always known Him, from eternity past, and has set His Almighty love upon the individual as His own possession (Romans 8.29-30).
Most soberingly, the eternity of God also necessitates that His wrath shall endure forevermore in eternal hell as He punishes sinners justly, relentlessly, fairly and unendingly. Unbelievers will be cast into the eternal fire (Matthew 25.41). Oh run, unbelieving sinner! How will you escape the almighty and eternal judgment that awaits you! One day in hellfire would be bad enough. A million years would be worse still! But endless eternities in the presence of the eternal God is too much to even bear or contemplate! Hasten quickly to Christ and be converted that your sins may be wiped away (Acts 3.19)! Come at once, come right now to this eternal God who is mighty and able to save (1 John 5.13). If you reject, you will endure a severe punishment from this God of eternity (Hebrews 10.29-31)!
At the same time, the eternity of God causes the heart of the Christian stop soar because He has given us “eternal life” (1 Timothy 1:16). Indeed, this is a very promise from the unchanging God: eternal life (1 John 2.25). Our God is good and His lovingkindnesses are everlasting (Jeremiah 33.11). So therefore, child of God, get lost in the wonder of the eternity of God and stand confidently on this amazing Rock in the shaky culture in which we live: “for in God the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock” (Isaiah 26.4).
So we remember with Habakkuk and shout: “Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy one” (Habakkuk 1.12). The dominion of God is an everlasting dominion (Daniel 7.14).
