Advent - "E" - Everlasting Man"

December 4, 2011

“E” – “Everlasting Man”

“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching of His understanding.” (Isaiah 40:28).

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

They say that the minute a baby is born he begins to die – the sloughing off of old cells, the general aging of the body; etc. Only doctors and scientists can attest to this. Never-the-less, the older I get, I heartily agree. Every morning I wake with a new twinge or a new ache - it’s my body wearing out! The Word tells us that the days of our life are numbered – only God knows how many. Even nature has its "season." Everything God created has a specified time to live; a beginning and an end. They say even the stars die. Ecclesiates three speaks to the fact that there is a time for everything – “a time to be born and a time to die.” This earth also will come to an end, “in its time.”

Even Jesus was born for a “season.” His life span on this earth was preplanned, but His birth was not His beginning, neither was His death His ending. He is the “Everlasting Man,” as G.K.Chesterton named Him. He had no beginning. He was there before creation; He will be there when all creation, as we know it, is gone. His immaculate conception and consequent birth, in Bethlehem of Judea (as foretold by the prophets), was His earthly beginning and His death on the cross was His earthly ending, but because He is the Everlasting Man, He lives forever, and we will also!

He is God from everlasting to everlasting (Psalm 92:2). He has made an everlasting covenant with us (Heb.13:20). He has given believers everlasting life (John 3:16). We live in His everlasting kingdom (II Peter 1:11). Underneath us are His everlasting arms (Duet.33:27). His mercy is everlasting (Psalm 100:5). That is why we have everlasting joy (Isaiah 35:10)!

We are created in His image. Our spirits will live forever, either with or without Him, depending on our believing in Him while we are in this life. He created us with a spirit so we could live with Him forever, because “God is a Spirit and we that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in Truth.” Once we are born into this world we have become everlasting beings, either to live forever with Jesus or we live forever without Him – I call that “everlasting death” (Daniel 12:2).

Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
Elisha A. Hoffman

What a fellowship, what a joy divine leaning on the everlasting arms.
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine leaning on the everlasting arms.

O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way leaning on the everlasting arms.
O how bright the path grows from day to day leaning on the everlasting arms.

What have I to dread, what have I to fear leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near leaning on the everlasting arms!