The Attributes of God - God is Eternal

We humans get caught up in the idea of eternity. It's confusing. We experience time one day after another. When we try to think of eternity, we imagine an endless string of days compounding into millions and billions of years. I don't know about anyone else, but the idea of spending 8 billion years doing anything sounds horrible.

God does not experience time in this manner; the eternality of God means that He is beyond time. Eternity is not something that we as temporal beings can easily come to grips with. We're simply unable to comprehend the nonexistence of time. We are finite beings and as such are incapable of ompletely understanding what is infinite. The fact that we have any comprehension at all of God is evidence of His reaching out to us.

In the book of Isaiah, Gad says that His ways are not our ways; His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.  We can never be completely like God, but we were all created with an eternal component, our soul that will advance to eternity after our time on Earth is complete.  Possessing a proper understanding of and posture toward God will ensure that this eternity is spent with Him rather than apart from Him.