Isaiah 57:15
“For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, “I dwell {on} a high and holy place, and {also} with the contrite and lowly of spirit, in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.”
No human can adequately explain it, and we are humbled to realize from verses like Isaiah 57:15 how insignificant we are beside the awesome power of our God. Isaiah writes that God “inhabits eternity,” that is, He dwells in perpetuity or lives eternally, continually. Moses puts it a different way in Psalm 90:2, “Even from everlasting to everlasting [or age to age], You are God.”
We can say that eternity sums up all of time (past, present, and future); it stretches endlessly in each direction from when we find ourselves living. But God inhabits, lives in, all of time. In contrast, we are aware of only a tiny fraction of the past and virtually ignorant of the future.
God knows beginning, as well the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10) and He is in control of the entire timeline. In comparison, we know by experience that we are in control of so little. Events frequently do not work out as we hoped. What a difference there is between God and us.
Eternity, according to Webster’s, means “time or existence without beginning or end.” We have applied this term to endless time so we can “measure” and grasp it to a limited extent. We do this because time, to almost everyone, is very important. To us of all people, time should be extremely important. We need not be overly concerned about time, but we should be concerned about its proper use. Because of God’s endless life and His power over events and lives of men, only a Being like Him, which is unconstrained by time could inhabit Eternity. By fulfilling our role, as a first fruit and utilizing our time in this physical life, as the Father and Jesus Christ desires, we are aligned with them, so prepare to receive the gift of being born into their Family and inhabiting Eternity.
