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The eternal God is thy refuge,
and underneath are the everlasting
arms: and he shall thrust out the
enemy from before thee; and shall
say, Destroy them (Deuteronomy
33:27).
When did God have His beginning?
Who was before Him?
These common questions have but
one answer: God is eternal. He has
always existed. Note this
revelation to Isaiah: Ye are my
witnesses, saith the LORD, and my
servant whom I have chosen; that
ye may know and believe me, and
understand that I am he: before me
there was no God formed, neither
shall there be after me. I, even
I, am the LORD; and beside me
there is no saviour (Isaiah
43:10,11). Go back in time as far
as you like and God is there: In
the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth (Genesis
1:1).
Man is tied to time. We reckon
time in segments because our lives
are limited to approximately
threescore years and ten (see
Psalm 90:10). All plans for the
future must be conditioned on
whether or not we will be alive.
God has no such limitation. He
will always exist. His promises
are forever because He will endure
forever. Because He lives, we can
lean on the everlasting arms and
be "safe and secure from all
alarms."
F. B. Meyer explained: "The
Oriental shepherd was always ahead
of his sheep. He was in front. Any
attempt upon them had to take him
into account. Now God is in front.
He is in the tomorrows. It is
tomorrow that fills men with
dread. But God is there already,
and all tomorrows of our life have
to pass before Him before they can
get to us."
As Fanny Crosby said we are "safe
in the arms of Jesus," the
everlasting arms. |
