SCRIPTURE: Before the mountains were born or before You had given birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God. Psalm 90:2 AMP
THOUGHT: If we start from the premise that God has always been and will always be, we wind up with a Big God and a different theology than much of the world practices. Greatness that we cannot harness by human will. Power that commands respect. Intelligence that created from nothing. The thoughts, ideas, and love of a being far beyond our control. We come to falling down on our faces and weeping at the story of his ongoing rescue, his patience, his grace.
I sometimes try to imagine what it must be like to have that kind of perspective. To know the whole of something so big, so intimately. When I try this exercise, I always end up sad. I can’t imagine what God must feel like while he watches mankind forget, dismiss, or actively thwart the plan he created with their flourishing in mind. ‘How in the world does God go on?’ I ask myself. As a creative soul, I know how it feels when your creation is rejected. But there it is. He is the eternal God, and as verse 4 says, a thousand years in his sight are like yesterday when it is past.
The truth that hits me hardest this morning is that when we forget or reject God, we forget that we, too, are eternal souls, made in his image. Forever is such a long time to live with the consequences of forgetfulness.
PRAYER: Oh God, you are the only God, the beginning and the end of all things. What is mankind that you are mindful of us? And yet, you are, and I am grateful.
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