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God Is Eternal.

"Before the mountains were brought forth or ever Thou hadst 

formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to ever

lasting, Thou art God." Psalms 90,2.

These words are the beginning of the oldest psalm in the 

Bible. They state that God is an eternal God. With Him there 

is no yesterday and no to-morrow; with Him there is no time. 

To every other being we attribute a beginning; even the ancient 

hills had a beginning at the time of creation; the angels had 

a beginning, Not so God; He is from everlasting to everlasting; 

without beginning, without end. He never began to be and never 

will cease to be. He is the King eternal, immortal. He never 

grows older, never dies.

Therefore in God there never is a change; lapse of days and 

years and centuries does not affect Him. He lives in an everlasting 

to-day. He is a God "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow 

of turning,” as St. James says. He is the same yesterday, to-day, 

and forever. Otherwise we see that everything changes in the 

world, and everything finally comes to an end. "But Thou art 

the same, and Thy years shall have no end,” we read Ps. 102, 27. 

God says of Himself: “ I am that I am.” God cannot change. 

Therefore He is our Refuge throughout all generations.

Because God is eternal, also His Word shall remain forever, 

as He says: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words 

shall not pass away.” And therefore it is also true what David 

sings in the 103d Psalm: “But the mercy of the Lord is from 

everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him and His 

righteousness unto children’s children to such as keep His 

covenant.”

And because God is eternal, we, too, do not hope in vain for 

the eternal life which He has promised us. The children of God 

shall partake of the eternal bliss of their God and Father in heaven.