Everything comes and goes.  Think of all the stores and corporations that have closed in the last couple of decades.  Businesses that were stalwarts in our communities and maybe even our nation, or around the globe, are now gone.  Sears, K-Mart, and Toys-R-Us are just a few that come to mind, but there are many more.  On a larger scale, think of all the nations, kingdoms, and empires that have risen and fallen through the annals of time.  During the peak of the Roman Empire, one would have been scorned if they thought that Rome would ever fall, and yet here we are.  To drive the point even further, it was once said, “The sun never sets on the British Empire.”  It really was not that long ago that this was true.  People of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries would have likely thought it impossible that Britain would be relegated to what it is today.  Someday our Republic will look different than it does today.  At some point Walmart, Amazon and Google will all be memories.

In a world where change is the only constant, it is comforting to know that this does not apply to our Heavenly Father.  Unlike all of the other Kingdoms, His is the only one that will endure through eternity. 

In ancient Hebrew the term for the Eternal God is El Olam. It means the eternal or everlasting One.  Because God is the everlasting One, then He can make everlasting covenants and agreements.  Every four years when the United States elects her president, the rest of the world takes notice because the policies of the previous administration may be abandoned.  Sometimes this is good, sometimes bad, sometimes neither.  That kind of instability could and does cause some anxiety on a global scale.  But because we have the same God from one generation to the next, and He is a God who does not change (Malachi 3.6), then there is no need to be anxious when it comes to our relationship with Him.  In Genesis 9.11, God promised Noah that He would never flood the whole Earth again.  He hasn’t.  In Genesis 17.7 He made a covenant with Abraham that He would be his offspring’s God forever.  He still is – and we as Christians are apart of that!  If you have put your faith in Jesus Christ, we have been told that we will have a new and everlasting life (Hebrews 9.15).  Only an all-powerful and all-knowing God can make such an audacious claim.  “This is what the Lord says – Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart form me there is no God” (Isaiah 44.6).

Because God is eternal, our redemption is secure in Him.  It is guaranteed to last.  He will never burn the agreement.  We may choose to walk away from Him.  He will never choose to walk away from us.  In Him, there is no change.  Everything that He says is true.  In fact He is the author of truth.  What confidence then can we have as we live our lives upon the earth, and even face the time when we must walk through the Valley of death’s shadow?  Indeed, in Christ, God has made us sure and secure.  Praise be to the Lord!