I just finished writing a devotional on the last verse of the 41st Psalm. David talked about God being “everlasting to everlasting.”
(Psa 41:13 KJV) Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.One of the statements I’ve made, and I believe others made, is that God exists outside of time. He can control time in ways that we can’t. He understands time in ways that we don’t. He is the creator, so that makes sense.n As I was thinking about the concept of everlasting, I compared it to infinity. I have mentioned the concept in mathematics were two times infinity is still infinity. For that matter infinity times infinity is still infinity. The thought occurred to me that it may be similar to zero in that sense, but that’s a topic for another day.
It might help us to understand the concept of eternity and time by realizing that it extends forever in both directions. Going backwards it would extend beyond the singularity that the Big Bang Theory postulates. In a sense that means that we ourselves are outside of time and are not moving through time, because the future and the past are equal distance, always. If they are equidistance then what are you measuring as time “passes”?
The basic point that Psalms is making is that God is above and beyond anything we consider reality. In spite of that He still reaches out to us. Incredible.
homo unius libri
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