Eternal

 Eternal 

 

Having no beginning or end

 

Have you noticed that some things don’t last very long? Flowers bloom only a few days. Bread turns dry and stale. Toys break after you play with them a lot. 

Did you know this world won’t last forever?

The world had a beginning, and it will have an end. But God is eternal, which means He has no beginning or end. It’s like the entire universe is inside a snow globe and God is outside it. Time ticks away only inside the snow globe, and God watches from above. 

We’re not eternal either. How can we know that? Because we have birthdays! Our birthdays celebrate when we were born because we weren’t alive before that. And though our bodies won’t last forever, our souls will. 

God says that while we’re in this world, we should care most about what will last forever. Do you know what lasts forever? Our relationship with God and loving and helping others. If we act like those things are super important, they’ll become our treasure – and it’s the only kind of treasure that lasts forever. 

Sometimes all we can think about is getting a fun toy or winning a game. But if that’s all we ever do, we’ll get to heaven and see those things didn’t matter as much we thought. They came to an end, just like the world did! Instead, we want to go to heaven and say, “Hey, here’s everything I cared about when I was on earth. It’s so important that it lasts forever!”

 

 

Psalm 9, 145

 

David loved God more than anything. When David was in trouble, He went to God for help. When he sinned, he asked for forgiveness. He cared about what God cared about. Why? Because David knew God is eternal and that what He says is most important. David said, “The Lord rules forever. He sits on his throne to judge. The Lord will judge the world by what is right.”(Psa 9.7-8)

David was a king, but he knew that God is the eternal King. He said to God, “Your kingdom will continue forever.”(Psa 145.13)

 

 

Put some sugar and sand in a jar. Add water and stir it. What happens? The sand stays while the sugar dissolves – you can’t see the sugar anymore. It’s like it goes away. God is like the sand, which you can still see. God has no end, but the earth will come to an end. 

 

 

God, help me care about what lasts forever so my treasures will be in heaven.