Evermore

Life is full of beginnings, and it’s nice to revisit them from time-to-time.  I remember the small mobile home where Mr. Bill and I lived the first five years of our marriage.  I fondly remember the simplicity and smallness of the place: less stuff, less area to clean and keep tidy, and cheap rent.  Mr. Bill, on the other hand, seems to only recall a pilot light that wouldn’t stay lit making winters cold and the black-and-white television with rabbit with few channels.  Such a grump!

How do we trace the beginning of God?  Well, we don’t!  That’s because He has no beginning and has no end.  The Beloved Apostle John lays this out nicely, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” (1:1-3)  With finite mindsets, we can’t comprehend no beginning and no end.  It seems easier, however, to embrace security in The Substance of our faith – He Who ever was and ever will be (Hebrews 11:1).  As much as I feel secure with and trust Mr. Bill, I know his days (as all life) are numbered by Almighty God.  Maybe it was Job left most speechless by The Creator: Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations? Who laid the measures, stretched the line, set the cornerstone? Who made the sun know its place, commanded the day’s end? Do you know where light and darkness dwell? Who scatters the wind, causes plants to bud, makes dew drops fall? What about the frost – where does it come from? (Job 38)  We may can trace our beginning to the womb but God traces us to before the beginning of the world.  Our Sovereign God, gracious and merciful and powerful and eternal; will we not stand as the Levites to declare God’s goodness, “Thou, even thou, art LORD alone.” (Nehemiah 9:6a)  I fear many Believers today only faintly hold a faith that is faltering because they do not remember this vital characteristic of The Author and Finisher.  In this world of beginnings and endings, we do well to remember the lack of beginning and end to our God.  Why not stop today – right now – acknowledge and worship He Who Was, He Who Is, and He Who Ever Will Be!   Evermore …