The eternity of God fits with the other attributes of God in a seamless flow of beauty. Because God is self-existent He did not need to be brought into being and needs nothing and no one to keep Him into being apart from Himself.
God’s eternity is connected with His infinity as His infinity in relation to time.
God’s eternity is connected with His infinity in that He is present at all points of the universe at all times as well.
God’s eternity displays His omniscience (all knowledge) as being from all eternity past through eternity future.
His eternity demonstrates that God is omnipotent at all times and points of eternity.
His eternity shows that He is immutable (does not change) for all eternity and in fact one reason that He is eternal is because He never changes. A being must change in order to grow old and die. A being must change to go from being to non-being and from life to death.
God’s eternal nature is seen in His impassibility. While many deny this today, His eternal nature shows that He knew and planned everything from all eternity and so He is not moved by the same things that humans are.
God’s eternal nature connects with His love in that He is said to have loved Christ and His people from eternity (or from the foundations of the world). If God loved His people in Christ from eternity, then that love does not depend on them but on His character. If He loved them from eternity, what can separate them from that love for eternity?
God’s eternal nature is seen in His wisdom as well. He planned the eternal Gospel and sending the Son from before the foundations of the world. We can now see His eternal plan unfolding and putting His glory on display as divine and perfect wisdom planned it.
His eternity connects with His patience in that He planned all things from eternity and yet waited until the perfect time to bring His plan to fruition. God is not in a hurry and cannot be hurried because His plan has been planned by perfect wisdom from all eternity and so He patiently waits to bring it to pass.
His eternity connects with His faithfulness in that God will always do what He says. He declared things in the beginning and He brings them to pass. He declares that His people will have eternal life and so His faithfulness is required for eternity in order for this to come to pass.
His eternity connects with His perfection in the sense that God has not gotten better or worse for eternity. His eternal nature requires Him to be perfect and His perfection requires Him to be eternal. A non-perfect being might change and go out of existence.
God’s eternal nature connects with His joy and pleasure at all points of eternity because God would have had nothing to rejoice in other than Himself if not for joy and pleasure within Himself. He is also the only source of true joy and pleasure for His people for all eternity. An eternity without joy and pleasure cannot be conceived of. An eternity without an infinite joy to grow into cannot be conceived of.
As we reflect on the eternal nature of the always living God, it should move us to bow in utter reverence before Him as He displays His glory to us through this attribute. All the perfections of God have always been perfections and always will be perfections. For all eternity all those in His presence in heaven will delight themselves in Him and in Him alone with perfect comfort of God eternally being God.
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