God is .... forever

Your throne, O God, stands forever and ever... (Psalm 45:6)

Last night, while reading from a prayer book before tucking my little brother into bed, we began to discuss what it means that God is forever; that He is eternal. The end of the Lord's Prayer states: For Your's is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever. But what does this forever really mean? The mind of an eight year old could not comprehend how God could have just been there forever, and that He will be there forever. Often we too neglect to understand what it means for us that God is eternal. 

As human beings we all have a beginning and will have an end when we die, however, God is not human, He is God, and God is eternal. God was there in the beginning. Genesis 1 begins: In the beginning, God.... God was there in the beginning; before anything was made He was there. He was not created; for if He were than there must be a higher being than Him, but there is not. God was there in the beginning when nothing else was. 

Our human minds fail to comprehend this. How can He just be there? How can it be, everything must have a beginning? But not God. He is from eternity and He will be there for eternity. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last (Revelations 22:13). 

And isn't that such a great comfort to us?

We can know and rest assured that God is always there, and He always will be there. We do not have to worry that He will leave this world up to chance; we do not have to worry that our prayers will enter into an empty abyss; for God is there. He is present with you and in you, and He will not leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5). 

What an amazing God we have!