Forever God

In the beginning, God...

Genesis 1:1, NKJV

Can you fathom forever?  Can a finite mind fully understand the infinite?  Is it possible to grasp the endless nature of eternity?

Everything that we know has tangible substance, form, function, definability.  There are points and lines and boundaries, discernible limits, measurable distances, Everything has a beginning and an end.  Everything that is wasn't always was, and won't always be.  Life itself is the mad dash from birth to death, encompassing everything from the life cycle of a single cell to the winding down of the whole wide universe.  And everything in that universe is composed of something else, where all the many parts make up the whole.

Everything, that is, except God.

Before the beginning, there was God.  Before the heavens and the earth.  Before light and darkness.  Before all that is and all that will ever be, there was God.

Nobody made Him.  Nobody created Him.  Nobody gave Him life.  He simply is.  And was.  And will be.  Forever.  In all dimensions and directions.  Without end.

From start to finish, all of time is confined within Him.  From the tiniest speck of cosmic dust to the largest stellar body, from one end of the physical universe the other, all of creation is contained within Him.

Throughout all eternity, forever and ever, He is God.  He is all powerful.  He is all knowing.  He is everywhere present all the time.  There is nothing that is out of His sight or beyond His reach.  There is nothing that surpasses His ability or authority.  His is the final and absolute word, the only word.

And this eternally existent God has created us and asked us to put our faith, our trust, our confidence, and our hope in Him and Him alone.  Is it too much to ask, that we trust an unknowable future to a knowable God?  Is it too much to ask, that put our hand in the hand of the One who made it all and holds it still?  Is it too much to ask, that we place our faith in the one who is greater than everything and less than nothing?

I cannot fathom forever, but I'm willing to believe in the one who not only can, but is forever.