The Everlasting God

Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary,
his understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 40:28

Can anyone explain how God is eternal or imagine the impossible prospect and incredible possibility of our own everlasting existence in God's presence?

To better understand God's everlastingness, three pictures are given:

1) God is the Creator of the ends of the earth. He not only create all the earth and everything in it, but he also set its boundaries. This means that God created beyond what we know. Even though scientists have discovered an enormous amount of knowledge about the farthest parts of the cosmos, we still cannot fathom its limits, but we know that God is beyond those boundaries as their beginning and end. God's everlastingness means that all things are under His control. By His great might and powerful strength, nothing is missing, nothing escapes his notice. Surely our way cannot be hidden from the One who sees to the ends of the earth.

2)God does not become faint or grow weary. Not only did He create the world, but He continues to preserve it. Not only did He save us, but He continues to work in us to transform us into His likeness and to fulfill His purposes through us. Not only does He establish us, but He continues to care and to provide for us and to sustain us.
God works constantly, watching over everything, all at once, all the time - and He is not tired tomorrow. Nor does He go to sleep tonight. We can call on Him time and time and time again and all of us can call on Him at once, and He remains patient and forbearing, ready to receive and answer our cries. He never grows weary of helping the oppressed, the needy, the comfortless, the desolate.

3) God's understanding is unsearchable. No searching can penetrate His comprehension. Never will God be fully understood. We can only barely begin to imagine Him because His love encompasses us. Even though we cannot figure out why God behaves toward us as He does, we cannot attribute it to His being tired or powerless to to help. Rather, we must recognize that we cannot penetrate God's infinite wisdom. This gives us hope in our waiting. When God does not intervene as we wish, when things don't change as we hope, it is not because God is not able or does not will it. He has reasons infinitely beyond our understanding; many mysteries of God's are not yet unfolded. We do not comprehend why things happen the way they do but God knows, and we can trust that His character is to be just and gracious and righteous. We believe His understanding is right, truly in accordance with genuine reality, even though we cannot decipher it. Consequently, we are driven to a deeper love for His infinite care. Without growing weary of us, the Lord is everlastingly devoted to us.

I grow very weary in devotion. I cannot imagine that God never gets tired of me. My needs seem so important to me, but scrutinized against an eternal perspective, they're not so significant. Yet we allow ourselves to be dominated by our worries and controlled by our anxieties. Why do I worry about God's provision when I should have known that He does not grow weary of caring? Haven't I heard that He knows my needs and understands (better than I do) what I am going through?

One of the most precious assurances for our humanity is that Jesus has undergone every temptation and trial to which we are subject, so that He eternally understands. Who can begin to comprehend how deeply He discerns - since He knows our feelings both from a human perspective and from God's everlasting wisdom?

God's understanding is unsearchable, but we believe that it includes trustworthy purposes for us. God is never weary in faithfulness and well-doing.

It is time for you and me to know. Pay attention now, and let us hear. For God is the God of everlasting good.

Quoted from "To walk and not faint" by Marva J. Dawn