Perspective

Psalms 90:2: Before the mountains were brought forth,

or ever you had formed the earth and the world,

from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

The eternality of God.  It sets God apart from man as One with power, wisdom, and authority that is beyond our comprehension.  His eternality clarifies man’s position in relationship to Him.  We have a beginning place . . .  a starting line.  We were formed, He was not.  He is infinite, we are finite.  He is the Former, we are the formee.  He is the Potter, we are the clay.  He was before the mountains were, we are dust from His creation.  He will always be, we return to our origin, our mark, our mold.  

His past tense declares His present reality.  He had formed the earth and the world, and now is and will always be everlasting.  Looking back at who God is and what God has done informs our present day experience.  He is the same yesterday, today, and forever; thus, the God of all history acts according to His eternality today.  

Moses recounts God’s eternality to both meditate on the weight of his and God’s people’s sin against God, as well as to draw comfort from a God who has the power, wisdom, and authority to show mercy.  We are guilty before an eternal God and only God can cover our guilt in the present.  Our multitude of created coverings are completely inadequate.  Dust cannot make robes white.

The eternal God came in space and time in the person of Jesus Christ to make a people white as snow.  Why?  Mercy.  Grace.  Our Father has seen His soiled children, heard their cry, and come to clean them that they might know His eternal love and care.  

Galatians 4:4-7

4  But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5  to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6  And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7  So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.