Our text is Psalm 90:2
“Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”
Before the mountains were made, there was God. Before even the Earth was made, God existed. Before the Sun and the moon and the stars were created, God was there. God Is and Was, and Shall Be.
This means that God exists beyond the physical world’s limitations and the laws that govern it. Since time itself is a part of the created universe, it’s certain that God exists outside of time and is not subject to its constraints.
I admit that there are things that are too difficult for my little mind to grasp. For example, the idea of nothingness is unimaginable. I can imagine Earth without America or Russia or Alaska. I can imagine the universe without Earth. Take that away and we can still see it in our mind’s eye. But try to take away the universe. All the stars and planets are just gone. There is nothing but the blackness of space. I can even imagine that, but let’s take it one step further. Imagine that space itself is gone. That is nothingness and I cannot describe it or even imagine it.
Timelessness is on the list of things beyond our ability to imagine. We can imagine time ending, but what if time never existed? We understand B.C. and A.D. but what about imagining BT, that is Before Time? Before there was time, there was God. God is eternal.
Many are familiar with 2 Peter 3:8
“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”
Many who read this verse see it as a symbolic way of God saying that he has a long view of things. I take a more literal view. God is really telling us that He is beyond time itself. A thousand years can be a day or a day a thousand years. He made time and time obeys him.
In other words, God is eternal.
Lonnie Davis