If you look up the word «eternal» in the dictionary, you’ll find this definition: «not having a beginning or an end.»
Can you think of something that has no beginning or end?
Well, everything there is in this world has a beginning and an end: plants, animals, people . .
Wait, there’s Someone who has no beginning or end and is eternal. In fact, Eternal is one of His names. Yes, Godis Eternal.
We can’t fully understand what it means to be eternal or what eternity is. But God is Eternal, or infinite, because He was never born and will never die; He has always existed and always will exist.
Time doesn’t go by for God like it does for us. The Bible says that for God «a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day» (you can read it in Psalm 90:4).
Heaven’s clock must also be different, but God knows at what point within eternity everything is going to happen. In fact, did you know that He’s the only one who knows when Jesus will return to Earth?
When we go to the New Earth,we will also live forever with Jesus. We will live forever! Can you imagine?
In Revelation 21, the apostle John describes the beautiful city God is preparing for us. He saw a crystal-clear river flowing from the throne of God, and on the riverbanks was the Tree of Life. Its leaves will be for healing and eating its fruit will give everyone everlasting life.
Would you like to be there and try that fruit? Trust the Eternal One and you will be there forever.