No Other Rock Like Our God

           “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God,” Psalm 90:2. God is eternal. This is one of the hardest attributes of God for me to wrap my mind around. Many things will exist forever. Human souls are everlasting. The kingdom of God is everlasting. But no other thing is eternal like God. Before there were people, an earth, or space or even before there was time, there was God. He has always existed. He always was, always is and always will be.

          While that is amazing by itself, there is another attribute of God that makes it even more astounding. If God were a being who constantly changed, this would diminish His eternality. This god could be entirely different from one generation to the next. It would be as if meeting a new god every few years, a god who varied as much as people do. Perhaps one year this god would be patient and kind, the next he would be irritable and cruel. To one generation, he might show love, to the next apathy and to the following hatred. This would be a terribly unreliable god.

          Thankfully, this is not how our God is. In Psalm 102:27, the psalmist said of God, “But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.” Within this passage he affirmed both the eternality and the immutability—the unchangingness—of God. The writer of Hebrews later expressed these same qualities of Jesus Christ, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). It is most fitting then that Jesus metaphorically describes Himself as the Rock, worthy of building our lives upon (Matthew 7:24-27).

          No other foundation is as sure as Jesus Christ. All the treasures of this life are not as secure. They are vulnerable to moth, rust, thieves and all other manner of ruin (Matthew 6:19). People are not as reliable. At our best, we still cannot ensure success. “The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all” (Ecclesiastes 9:11). We are rarely at our best. With mankind’s duplicitousness, unmanaged tempers and wandering lusts, it is apparent that people cannot bear the burden of securing all their hope and peace. Even nature itself is not as enduring. The material world will wane, exhaust and perish, but God will endure (Psalm 102:26).

          That our God is eternal and immutable ought to fill every believer’s heart with praise. God is good, and He will always be good. God is just, and He will always be just. God is loving, and He will always be loving. He is our strength, our hope, our peace, our refuge, our Savior and our Lord. And He always will be from now through eternity. Let us offer the same praise as Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:2, “There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.”

Submitted by T.J. Blankinship