EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING

Ps.90:2 – Before the mountains were born
Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

In the previous verse the Psalmist says that God is our dwelling place or our place of rest. It is in His eternal nature that we find our identity and our safety. Why should I be afraid if the Lord is actually my dwelling place? No matter what may come against me: sickness, poverty, betrayal, or calamity I find my place of safety in His everlasting arms. In this Psalm of Moses we see Moses had learned to rest in God no matter what he faced. There were troubles in Egypt, troubles in the wilderness, and even troubles in the land of promise; Moses found refuge in God alone. Here is how Martin Luther describes this passage.

“Such a God have we, such a God do we worship, to such a God do we pray, at whose command all created things sprang into being. Why then should we fear if this God favors us? Why should we tremble at the anger of the whole world? If He is our dwelling place, shall we not be safe though the heavens should go to wrack? For we have a Lord greater than all the world. We have a Lord so mighty that at his word all things sprang into being. And yet we are so fainthearted that if the anger of a single prince or king, nay, even of a single neighbor, is to be borne, we tremble and droop in spirit. Yet in comparison with this King, all things beside in the whole world are but as the lightest dust which a slight breath moves from its place, and suffers not to be still. In this way this description of God is consolatory, and trembling spirits ought to look to this consolation in their temptations and dangers.”

This verse can bring great consolation and encouragement in this dangerous generation that we live in. There seems to be an eroding of culture all around us. The Lord Himself is our only place of refuge. You can hide yourself away in His love; you can find rest, guidance, courage, and strength in His presence. Like Moses also declared in Deut.33:27 – “The eternal God is a hiding place,
And underneath are the everlasting arms.”
When there is nowhere to turn this is where we find our strength, in the everlasting arms of our God.