God Is Eternal. (Pasche)
"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 Because God is eternal, also His Word as He says: "Heaven and earth shall pass
generations.
shall remain forever, away, but My words
shall not pass away.” And therefore it is also true what David
sings in the 103d Psalm: “But the mercy
everlasting to everlasting upon them that
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.
Prayer.
I commit myself this day and all the days of my life to Thee, O God, the eternal Father, who hast created me; to Thee, O God, the eternal Son, who hast redeemed me; and to Thee, O God, the Holy Ghost, who hast sanctified me when I was baptized in Thy name and enlightened me by the Gospel with Thy gifts, so that I know Jesus as my Savior, trust and believe, rejoice and take comfort, in Him. O eternal Holy Trinity, render me fit at all times to enter eternal bliss by keeping me steadfast in the true faith. Amen.
