Scripture broadcasts this attribute in surround sound. God is "from everlasting" (Ps. 93:2), and the "everlasting king" (Jer. 10:10), "incorruptible" (Rom. 1:23), "who alone has immortality" (1 Tim. 6:16). The heavens and the earth will perish "But you [O God] are the same and your years will have no end." (Ps. 102:7) You'll more quickly measure the salt of the ocean than measure the existence of God because "the number of God's years is unsearchable" (Job 36:26 KJV).
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Trace the tree back to a seed. Trace the dress back to a factory. Trace the baby back to a mommy. Trace God back to . . . to . . . to . . .
No one. Not even God made God. "From eternity I am he" (Isa. 43:13 KJV). For that reason we have Jesus making statements such as, "Before Abraham was born, I AM" (Jn. 8:58). He didn't say, "before Abraham was born I was." God never says I was because he still is. He is — right now — in the days of Abraham and in the end of time. He is eternal. He does not live sequential moments, laid out on a timeline, one following the other. His world is one moment, or better stated, moment-less.
He doesn't view history as a progression of centuries, but as a single photo. He captures your life, your entire life, in one glance. He sees your birth and burial in one frame. He knows your beginning and your end because he has neither.
Doesn't make sense, does it? Eternity makes no sense to us, the time-bound. You might as well be handed a book written in kanji (unless, of course, you are Japanese.) You look at the characters and all you see is zigzagged lines. You shake your head — this language finds no home in your mind.
But what if someone taught you how to read and write the language? Suppose a native speaker had the time and you had the will and that day-by-day the symbols that mean nothing to you began to mean something?
With God's help, the same is happening to you and me regarding eternity. He is teaching us the language. "He has set eternity in their heart" (Ecc. 3:11). Tucked away in each of us is a hunch that we were made for forever and a hope that the hunch is true.