Psalm 90:1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
God is Not Limited by Time
Do you ever feel like you have too much to do and not enough time in which to do it? Of course you do, and so does everyone you know. We just can’t seem to fit everything into the time we have allotted. All of us only have twenty-four hours in a day, and all of us only have this life to do things on this earth. So, we are often very keenly aware of our limitations in time and ability, and we tend to foist these limitations upon God. We think somehow that God is merely a better, stronger, wiser version of us.
God is not like us. He is singular. He is different. God is not limited by time, but we are. Psalm 90 is a psalm all about time and God’s power over it. If you look at Psalm 90, there are words like “generations,” “everlasting,” “years,” “days,” “number,” and “early,” which are designations of time, time to which we are subject but to which God is not subject.
Psalm 90:1 says, “LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” God was God before creation. We tend to think of God’s story beginning at creation because that is when our story starts, but God was eternally in existence before the day of creation. That one thought alone is enough to blow your mind.
We spend our years, the psalmist says, like a story that is told then quickly finished. It flies away. The psalmist says, “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom… O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we can rejoice all of our days.” The psalmist talks about our limitations in time compared to God’s lack of limitations.
We often talk about being old-fashioned. I think I understand what most people are talking about, but God is not old-fashioned because no one fashioned Him. God is not in style because God was not styled by anyone. Anything in style is subject to time, change, and irrelevance, but not God. He is the One Who made and fashioned us.
God is not merely old; He is ancient. He is not merely ancient; He is eternal, which is to say that He is timeless. “Timeless” is not a larger version of time. It is something totally different than time. This is why the only part of your ministry that will remain is that which reflects the timelessness of God.
Verse 16 says, “Let thy work appear to they servants, and thy glory unto their children.” Verse 17 says, “And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.” The only thing that is going to last in time and eternity is that which is beyond style and not fashioned by man but created by God. Nothing you do will last if it does not reflect the timeless, eternal, omnipotent nature of God Almighty.