Today, I woke up thinking about the greatness of God. In particular, Him being eternal, having always existed and will always exist. We think in terms of time regardless how we look at things. For example, we can comprehend always existing from one point and forever into the future, but to think of God who has always existed in the past makes the noodle hurt.
God is forever in both directions, past and future. He has always been just like He is today and has never changed. Many of us tend to think that God started everything with the creation of the earth, our beginning, but God has always been in the past. Go back 100 billion years and God is there, go back 100 trillion years and God is still there, go back 100 trillion years times 100 trillion years and God is still there.
The thought that was in my mind this morning was that there never was a “first” thing God did. He always has existed, so there never was a “start” to His work. What did God create first? You might be tempted to think about the creation account in Genesis, but what about before that? It is all relative to something that is based on time, like our universe, something inside the realm of time, but God lives outside the realm of time, which is hard, if not impossible for our brains to comprehend.
God has a Kingdom that is also eternal, it has always been and will always be since He is eternal. But since God never had a beginning, there was no “beginning” to His Kingdom. We have no idea what God has created in the past, long before He created our universe. Boy, will it be great when we get to heaven and find out how all this works ;)
I once heard of something very simple, but also very deep. You know how we use the phrase, “oh, it just dawned on me” or something surprised us? Well, “Nothing has ever dawned on God”, He has all knowledge, He knows everything past and future, you cannot surprise God.
When we realize that we know very little about God and His greatness, it surely should bring comfort to us, realizing that He is more than enough for any issue that should come into our lives and God would choose to love us so much.