229. The eternal God is our refuge: He is our fortress, in whom we trust.

12 December 2021

The Eternal God is your refuge.

Deuteronomy 33

27 The eternal God is your refuge,

    and underneath are the everlasting arms.

He will drive out your enemies before you,

    saying, ‘Destroy them!’

Psalm 91

2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,

    my God, in whom I trust.”

Eternal God in Hebrew.

"El Olam is the Eternal God without a beginning or end.

“Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God [El Olam].” (Genesis 21:33)

El is a singular name used for God. It means might, strength and power and is often combined with other Hebrew words such as Olam, which means world, universe, eternal, forever, everlasting time or space.

We understand from this name of God that He is the sovereign, eternal ruler of the entire universe who is beyond time or space.

“Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”  (Psalm 90:2)

This name of God, El Olam, teaches us that God is unchangeable (Malachi 3:6).

His plans and purposes are timeless, and He will not fail to follow through with them (Isaiah 37:26).

“He will not falter or be discouraged till He establishes justice on earth.” (Isaiah 42:4)

Thus, we read in Genesis 21:33 that after Abraham entered into a peace treaty with Abimelech and Phicol at Beersheba, he called upon El Olam as a display of his faith that the Everlasting God would deliver on His covenant promise to give his descendants the Land.

Everything we see in the natural is temporal and subject to change, but like Abraham, we should not be moved by what we see since El Olam is the Eternal God who created the universe. He will not fail to accomplish His plans and promises.

“Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.” (Isaiah 26:4)" From free.messianicbible website /feature/3-more-names-of-god-el-olam-el-kannah-and-adonai-mekoddishkem/

"The fact that God exists “from everlasting to everlasting” (Psalm 90:2) is not only a profound theological statement but a comforting and reassuring truth as well. Because “He is the living God and the everlasting King” (Jeremiah 10:10), without beginning or ending, we have the confidence that He can be relied upon to keep His promises and complete all His plans for us.

Nothing in our lives, whether big or small, takes God by surprise. The eternal, all-knowing One is fully aware of everything that has already occurred, that is now taking place, and that will yet happen.

I’m glad we serve an eternal, all-knowing God, aren’t you?" From odb website/US/2001/10/24/the-eternal-god

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. Psalm 37:7

Trusting God. Opening up with God.

Opening up is another way of saying that we truly trust God. We are not afraid to rely upon him. We do so willingly with no hidden secrets. With such trust, we will till the soil of our soul for devotion.

I went through seeming unsurmountable midlife crisis. To say I was worried is an understatement.

I opened up with God about my frustration regarding the uncertainty in sending my children to college while I had afforded to send them to private school from grade school to high school, my frustration of not being able to provide for my family, the cars had to be sold and the house was to be foreclosed by the bank.

To "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him" is to have no hidden secrets from God. To enter into and stay in the relationship with God. To truly trust him.

That midlife crisis some 17 years ago, for me was like waiting in eternity. 

Well, we enter into a relationship with God, and that should be for eternity.

Childlike faith. A child waits patiently upon his or her parents, a picture of us waiting patiently upon our Heavenly Father.

That midlife crisis of mine came to pass, I put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ my Savior. The Lord is my refuge.

""Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, 

but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from faith— 

to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.

" (Romans 16:25-27). This I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

27 February 2018"

May you be blessed with God's Word.

Maraming salamat.