Nehemiah 9:5 The leaders of the Levites – Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani,, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah – called out to the people: “Stand up and praise the Lord your God, for he lives from everlasting to everlasting! Then they continued, “Praise his glorious name! It is far greater than we can think or say”.
Today’s name of Jesus is “Everlasting to Everlasting”. The word everlasting is defined as “lasting forever or a very long time”. There are a few things that seemed to take forever in the last few days for me. It took forever for Mike to get out of his hip replacement surgery (everything went very well by the way). Then it took forever to get discharged and get home. It took forever for my outdated PC to warm up and start working. It took forever for the traffic light to change so I could walk across the intersection in the rain. It took forever to get to work because of the traffic. It takes forever to get the test results from the doctor. It takes forever to…….You fill in the blank. I am obviously desensitized to the word forever. The reality is, we cannot begin to comprehend FOREVER, let alone everlasting to everlasting. “It is far greater than we can think or say”.
The word everlasting is a word that causes my mind to implode. I cannot fathom the idea of never ending. Revelation 22:13 says “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the last, the Beginning and the End”. This name of Jesus is a reminder of how powerful our God is. We will not be able to truly fathom this concept this side of heaven. And this all powerful, everlasting God also cares about the details of your life. He cares about the frustrations of this world that cause us to stumble, like rainy days and waiting impatiently for things to start moving. He is in the waiting of all of those little moments.
“Stand up and praise the lord your God, for he lives from everlasting to everlasting!”
Shelly