Becoming a theologian: God's eternity

The next incommunicable attribute we come to is God's eternity. God has no beginning or end. God sees all time. God is timeless.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

Revelation 1:8

Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Psalm 90:2

• God has always existed. There was never a time when God did not exist.
• In fact, we can go as far as to say that when God created the universe, He also created time. Though we may not understand time to be a dimension such as length, width, and height, it is. And if God created the length, width, and height, then God also created time.
• As we'll look at tomorrow, God is omnipresent and exists in and can see all points in space. Then, if time is really a dimension, God exists in all times and can see all of it equally.
• Think about the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie. We can watch it and it takes time for us to watch it. But the ending - even when we're watching the beginning - has already been written. If you were to look at the DVD, the whole movie is there on DVD at the same time. We just can't see both the beginning and end at the same time because we are limited to watching the movie one scene after another.
• In the same way, our lives are written by God. God already knows and sees what lies ahead for us because He has already written it. We must live our lives one day at a time, but God sees it all because He is not bound by time.
• Even though God sees all time equally, He knows all time individually.
• We can read in Psalm 139:16b "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
• Each day is like a page in a book to God. He has already written the book even though we haven't finished reading it yet.
• This page on the book is not just plain words to God, it has vivid pictures. It is
• Ian's birthday
• inauguration day in the U.S.
• It's supposed to be cloudy and 31 degrees here.
• It's supposed to be 51 degrees and mostly sunny in Flordia.
• And much, much more.
• All of the details of a day that is not complete are already known to God.
• If God is not bound by time, do you think you can trust Him to lead you in the way that you should go?
• Knowing that God will still exist tomorrow (and be unchanged), do you think you can still trust Him tomorrow?
• Aren't you glad for God's eternity?