Thanks for stopping by! This is Day 29 of my 2015 “31 Days Reflecting on God” series. Find the rest over here.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Psalm 90:1-2

As a little girl, I would lie awake in bed thinking about the concept of eternity. I’d let my mind reach back as far as it could go and then boomerang into a future that has no end and I would end up in the fetal position praying, “God, help me stop thinking about it. It’s too scary.”

I got older and smarter. I stopped trying to figure it out. It’s honestly too big for me.

We understand time because it’s all we’ve known. We can’t even fathom existing without it. But we don’t understand how it works. We shake our heads every season in disbelief that more of it has passed.

Do you like to control things, like I do? To plan everything perfectly and hope for the best possible outcomes? Then you probably hate not understanding the concept of eternity as much as I do.

But if I look up from my limited understanding, I can actually find comfort in feeling this small. Here’s why.

I know the Creator of time. He made the mountains – the world – me. He spoke into being this incredible concept of history and future. If he did that, he can control what lies outside of this reality, too.

I’m even more comforted to know that he himself is my home. So wherever he goes, in or out of time, he keeps me safe. Secure.

Time itself shifts, and changes everything around us. So why do I keep running to what feels familiar to find comfort? Only one person can be my real refuge. The one who exists outside, before and beyond everything I know.

He is God. He always has been and always will be. I can rest knowing he’s even bigger than eternity.

 

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