The LORD GOD we serve has several names. Some of these names He called Himself while the many others were given Him by the nature of the ways He manifests Himself to people. God names appear in single and compound names. Most of the compound names of God, such as El Shaddai (Almighty God), El Elyon (The Most High God), Jehovah Jireh (The Lord will provide), to mention but few, are names given to God by people based on how they experienced His encounter with them. Today’s devotional is discussing one of God’s compound names is El-Olam. El-Olam is Hebrew name for God that is not frequently used. This name, El-Olam means “The Everlasting One.” The possible first time El-Olam was used is in Gen. 21: 33 after Abraham and King Abimelech entered into covenant. Prophet Isaiah translated the El-Olam as “everlasting” in Isaiah 64: 4. It has to be known that the word El means God in the Old Testament. But the word Olam if used alone contains more glorious meaning for God other than the “everlasting one.”
The basic meaning of the Olam is “The most distant time.” The Hebrew people understand this name as being an indefinite period of time as seen in Leviticus 25: 32 and Joshua 24 2._We must understand that if God is everlasting it means He permanently dwells in eternity._ Everlasting Biblically means having neither beginning nor ending. God is not confined to limited time of existence. Understanding of God as everlasting should give Christians the fact that God is God, who has always been and always will be. Our God cannot be exhausted. In Isaiah 40: 28 our God is everlasting, fainted not and will never be weary. God as Olam puts Him as one who is limitless in understanding. When the Bible talks about God as one that “there is no searching of His understanding, it means that no one can penetrates God’s understanding or find out how His understanding is. God inhibits in eternity. He is God from everlasting to everlasting.
*This devotional wishes to tell Christians that they are privileged to have a Father so everlasting, whose understanding cannot be found with natural wisdom. He sees everything backward to when the earth began and sees everything lying in the future. He has the power to bring back to us the glories of our great grandparents many generations back._ With God who is everlasting, we His children lost nothing from the past and will get what belong to us in the future. Since God’s knowledge and understanding covers the past, present and future, He alone can be depended upon. What are those things you think you are losing out? What are those things you fear you will never have? Ask Him for the deep knowledge about them. You will be given the secret of everything you need from God. You have to stop thinking about your circumstances with the natural man as much as possible. Always by faith in God’s words, search out things in the Spirit of God. The Bible says this: “But the natural man recieveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolish unto him; neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2: 14). As long as we depend on the Holy Spirit whatever be cloud our minds concerning the everlasting nature of God will be shown to us.
PRAYER:
FATHER JEHOVAH, I am limited in understanding, you created me on temporal existence, reason I always think in the now. Kindly show me the good things you lay on my path of life. Help me to access them in Jesus name.
POSITIVE DECLARATION:
The God I serve is Everlasting Father. I have lost nothing and I will gain all that are for me in future. Hallelujah!!!
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