Evermore

Life is full of beginnings, and it’s nice to remember them occasionally.  I recall the small mobile home where Mr. Bill and I lived the first five years of our marriage -- the simplicity and coziness of the place.  On the other hand, all Mr. Bill seems to recall is a furnace that wouldn’t stay lit making winters cold, and the tiny black-and-white television with rabbit ears that got only a few local channels.  Miss Romance meets Mr. Grump!

 

How do we trace the beginning of God?  Well, we don’t!  That’s because He has no beginning and no end.  “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.” (John 1:1-3).  With finite minds, we can’t comprehend an absence of beginning or end.  By faith, rather, we embrace faith’s Substance – He Who ever was and evermore will be (Hebrews 11:1).  Oh, but don’t we long to command our days; to this, God left Job speechless: “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).  Once a year, on our birthdays, we trace ourselves to a particular beginning but God said, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born …” (Jeremiah 1:5a).  To live faintly in knowledge of The Holy, we will falter in our numbered days.  Recalling God’s infinity is good exercise in evil days when troubles linger.  Let us stand as the Levites and declare God’s Goodness, “Thou, even Thou, art LORD alone.” (Nehemiah 9:6a).  Would you stop right now and speak words of praise to “I AM” – He Who Was, He Who Is, He Who Ever Will Be!   Almighty God … Evermore!