The Attributes of God (Part 5): Eternity
“Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.” (Job 36:26) If you could have one superpower, what would it be? If you could bend the laws of nature, what would you do? Move things with your mind like Jean Gray? Bend time like Dr. Strange? Have x-ray vision and fly like Superman? We certainly enjoy seeing our favorite heroes do these things in movies. It’s fascinating to imagine what we might do if we were free from the normal constraints of our human bodies and world. But the reality is we are all limited. We are finite. If we are honest, we all wish we were infinite. To be infinite means to have no limit. It means having freedom from any and all boundaries of the created world. There is only one being who can make this boast. The God of the Bible is infinite in all of his being; infinitely loving, infinitely powerful, infinitely just, and infinitely merciful, to name a few. He is without constraint, without confine...