Eternity

Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. Genesis 21:33

When waiting in line time just crawls.  When riding a roller-coaster 5-minutes can feel like mere moments in passing.  While we have different experiences with time, we are always bound by it.  We cannot go forward or back, speed it up or slow it down, nor can we manipulate or change it.  We are stuck in time.  God, however, created time.  Genesis 1:1 gives us the moment where God created our timeline: “in the Beginning…”  It is strange to think that the beginning is only the beginning because God chose to start there…and had he not created space and matter, time would continue to be an abstract concept in the wake of his eternality.  In Genesis 21:33 God is called the Everlasting God.  “Everlasting” translates the Hebrew word: ‘olam.  This word means far more than simply lasting forever, but even has the sense of the fact that God is timeless…without beginning and without end.  There is nowhere you can go…and nowhen that you can go to escape from the love and care of your Everlasting God.