The Everlasting God
From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. (Ps. 90:2)
Ps. 90:1-4; Ps. 102:24-28; John 17:3; Heb. 13:8; James 4:17
What Is God Saying?
God, the Creator, and humankind, the created. God is eternal. Humans have a limited number of days. With God, a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is past, a watch in the night. With us, our years are soon gone, and we fly away. It seems we flourish in the morning and fade and wither by evening. God has a better idea than that we should be like grass that withers and flowers that fade. Our life does not need to end with a sigh and return to the dust from which it came.
Jesus, God's loving and inexpressible gift, came so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. John emphasizes that "God gave us eternal life and this life is in His Son" (I John 5:11). These are the matchless words of our Redeemer, "I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live and whoever lives and believe in me shall never die" (John 11:25-26).
How Does This Apply To Us?
This passage stresses God's everlastingness and our transience and emphasizes the importance of our remaining days. Yes, having embraced Jesus Christ in faith, as He is freely offered to us in the Gospel, and having all eternity to spend with Him, we must make our remaining days count for Him in this life. We cannot count the days that remain, but we can make the days that remain count.
Pray With Me
Help me, O God, to rest in the confidence that my true destiny is an unhurried eternity. Let me relax in the awareness that my true Home is a timeless Heaven. Then, I am shielded from the poison darts of worry and bear all losses. Reconciled to God, my pardon is eternal. Redeemed by God, my salvation is eternal. Kept by God, my security is eternal. Lord, make this one day a day of unbroken fellowship. In this day let me know that my God is everlasting. I cannot count the days that remain, but I can make the days that remain count. Let them count
• under the light of eternity
• as vessels filled with grace and emptied in love.
• with things that can't be counted, priced, bought, or sold.
• in loving surrender, obedient service, and cheerful faith.
• for You!
This one day! Others will follow until I am with You, never to know the lengthening shadows of the setting sun or the long hours of a starless night. Until then, I would possess by faith the victory of God-given and God-filled everlasting life.
Through Christ, my Lord. Amen.
Moving On In The Life Of Prayer
So we should rise each day with the prayer that for this one day in this one lifetime, we will be an instrument God can use, a vessel He can fill, a servant He can send, a window through which the light of His love and truth can shine. That is having a heart of wisdom. That is the way to rejoice and be glad all our days. That is how to make our prayers count. Listen to the God of eternity. Then pray as one who is destined to share in that eternity but is privileged to live now through the days numbered here. Prayer fills our hearts with God's steadfast love so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days until there are no more days. No more days?
‘When we've been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise,
Than when we've first begun.’
