This week we will be looking at the eternal attribute of God. Psalm 90:1-2 says, “Lord, you have always been our eternal home, our hiding place from generation to generation. Long before you gave birth to the earth and before the mountains were born, you have been from everlasting to everlasting, the one and only true God.”
One of the most mind blowing things about God is that He has always been. It is hard for us to wrap our human minds around that because on this Earth, everything has a beginning and an end. We are born one day and some day we will die. Plants and animals alike have a beginning and an end. Even the Earth itself was created at a point in time and one day life as we know it will come to an end. Everything has a beginning and an end, everything except God.
To better understand this, we need to go back to one of the attributes of God from a few weeks ago- His Omnipresence. God is everywhere present. He exists outside of time. For something to have a beginning and an end, it correlates to time. Where God exists outside of the confines of time, He neither has a beginning nor an end. Therefore, God tells us this about Himself in Revelations 1:8, “I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.”
If you can imagine God as an author of a book, the book being life as we know it in this world. God “was” before He wrote the book. He “is” while the book is being revealed to us, and He “will be” when the book is finished. We are discovering the book one chapter at a time, but the book has already been written. Its Author exists outside of and is separate to the book. Yet, He chooses to engage with the characters in the book because of His deep love and affection for them.
Isaiah 57:15-16 says, “For this is what the high and majestic one says, the one who fills the eternal realm with glory, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in high and holy places but also with the bruised and lowly in spirit, those who are humble and quick to repent. I dwell with them to revive the spirit of the humble, to revive the heart of those who are broken over their sin. You will not find me continually accusing them or holding anger against them, lest they feel defeated and lose heart before me. For I am the One who gave the breath of life to my people.”
The eternal attribute of God is good news to us! It means we are not only saved and delivered by the sacrifice of Jesus in this life. When we die and we step into eternity, the sacrifice of Jesus still stands! The blood of rams and bulls could never have done that for us. Hebrews 9:14, “Yet how much more will the sacred blood of the Messiah thoroughly cleanse our consciences! For by the power of the eternal Spirit he has offered himself to God as the perfect Sacrifice that now frees us from our dead works to worship and serve the living God.”
Jesus Christ sacrifice transcends time and space and so does His victory over the enemy. Jesus rules and reigns both now and in eternity. Which is why we better use our Earth years to learn to submit and surrender, otherwise Heaven is going to be awkward! Hebrews 1:8 says, “But about his Son, he called him “God,” saying, “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever and you will rule your kingdom with justice and righteousness…”.
God in all His three Persons is eternal. Which means all of His other attributes are eternal. He is, was and always will be Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent and Elohim.
Love and blessings,
Melissa Tsingano.
Heavenly Whispers Blog 
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