There are moments of wonder that rise quietly in the human heart while staring into the night sky from a porch chair after the world has gone still. I’m there now. One of those questions is this: “How could God have always existed?”
Perhaps the answer begins here: The difficulty is that we instinctively apply created thinking to an uncreated God. Everything we know seems to begin somewhere—people are born, stars ignite, trees grow from seeds—so our minds naturally ask, “Then what caused God?” Yet that question assumes that everything must have a beginning. Scripture and reason point us elsewhere.
God did not come from eternity. Rather, God is the eternal One. Eternity belongs to His very nature. Eternity flows from His nature just as light flows from the sun. Before there was time, God was. Before there was a universe, God was. God alone exists without beginning, without ending, and without dependence on anything outside Himself.
Perhaps that is why these words feel so profound:
“Before the mountains were born
Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”
— Psalm 90:2
The psalmist reminds us that before creation existed, God already was.
And when we further explore along these lines, we realize that if anything exists now, then something—rather Someone—must have always existed. Nothing cannot bring forth something. Time cannot create time. The universe cannot explain itself. Modern physics points toward space and time having a beginning, which means something beyond them must exist. And because the universe began at a particular moment, its cause must be not merely powerful, but personal—since only a personal agent can choose to initiate a temporal effect from a timeless state. Put simply: an uncaused Creator chose to create.
The remarkable truth in all this is that the God who stands beyond time is not distant from us. Instead, our eternal God has lovingly chosen to make Himself known to wondering creatures like us. Jesus Himself explains why this matters: “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” (John 17:3).
The God who has no beginning and no end invites us into an eternal relationship with Him. Entering into—and faithfully walking in—that relationship is the most important thing we’ll ever do.
I hope this encourages you to know our eternal God more deeply today.
Kevin Murray
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