Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the whole earth.
He never becomes faint or weary;
there is no limit to his understanding.
~Isaiah 40:28
We come now in our series on the names of God to the name El Olam, translated in Isaiah 40:28 as "The Everlasting God", pointing to the fact that God has no beginning and no end. He is (as pictured above) the "Alpha and the Omega", the beginning and the end. He is from everlasting to everlasting, for He has always existed and will always exist.
This truth carries with it many implications for us, a few of which are mentioned in today's passage.
Because He is the everlasting God, He never becomes faint or weary - which is really good news for us! After all, we often become faint and weary, do we not? Life is oftentimes hard, overwhelming, burdensome, and confusing, and we need an Advocate and a Helper on our side Who never becomes faint and never grows weary.
Secondly, because He is the everlasting God, there is no limit to His understanding. This, also, is good news for us. While we oftentimes have questions, grow confused, and lack understanding, our God never does. Because of this, we have the promise of James 1:5 - "Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him."
It is incredibly good news for us that our God is the everlasting God. And it is also a truth which sets apart the doctrines of Christianity from every single other "religion" on the planet - other religions point to created beings or to mere men as the objects of their worship. Our belief system does not.
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