Psalm 90:1-2 "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. (2) Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."
"Thou art God." As I begin this sentence, my heart tells me
that my mind cannot begin to comprehend the vastness of this subject. God
is... When did God begin? How many times have we heard that
question? How did you answer it? The usual answer is, "God has
always been." That's true, isn't it? But can our small minds really
comprehend just how vast our God truly is? We can say with Moses,
"Lord, you've always been there for us." (thou hast been our dwelling
place in all generations.) I can look back on my life, uneven as it has
been, and say, "I do not remember a time when I didn't believe in God and
love Him." Maybe there were times when I didn't love him as I should
have, but I cannot remember a time when I didn't love Him.
The key word in my sentence is "time". I cannot remember a TIME when
I didn't love Him. But I cannot fully fathom the depth when I think about the
existence of God, "from everlasting to everlasting." You see,
the first thing God created in Genesis 1:1 was "TIME". "In
the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." God created
"the beginning" before He brought forth LIGHT. There was a time
when, in my experience, God became my dwelling place. But there was never a
moment, even before time, when God did not hold me (and you) in His heart.
If you can determine when God began, then you can determine when God began
loving you. Because of our inability to fathom, I have to use earthly terms to
say, "There was never a time when God did not love you." From
everlasting to everlasting, He is God. "... God is love. (9) In
this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (10)
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son
to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4:8-10) God did not
begin loving us when He sent His Son to satisfy the sentence of death that was
against us; rather, that is when He "manifested" His love toward us.
God is always God, from everlasting (past) to everlasting (future). God is
always love, from everlasting (past) to everlasting (future).
God openly expressed His love toward us as His Son was nailed to a
cross on Calvary's Hill some 2000 years ago. If He loves us enough to give His
Son for us, should we not be comfortable enough to abide in Him as our dwelling
place rather than seeking comfort in worldly ways?