EL OLAM - MY EVERLASTING GOD
He is from everlasting to everlasting, the Ancient of days, that inhabits eternity, is, was, and is to come.
His name shall endure forever; His name shall continue as long as the sun. And men shall be blessed in Him; All nations shall call Him blessed (Psalm 72:17)
When I consider God as El Olam, the Everlasting God, I am acknowledging that there is no one who is everlasting. I choose, through the enabling of the Holy Spirit, to reverence, honor, glorify, and exalt God as El Olam, the Eternal One, the Unchanging God.
When I worship God as EL OLAM I am acknowledging the fact that all His glorious attributes such as His goodness, His longsuffering, His faithfulness, His lovingkindness, etc are from everlasting (olam) to everlasting (olam).
When I call on El Olam, I do so because I remember “His tender mercies and His loving-kindness, For they are from of old” (Psalm 25:6). When I call Him El Olam, I join David in saying, “For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations” (Psalm 100:5) and that “the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children” (Psalm 103:17).
And that is the comfort that should fill the heart of every Christian. Our God is an everlasting God. The earth as we see it shall pass away. The highest mountains shall be made low. Valleys shall be filled up. Altars that men have built to worship themselves shall crumble. Peace treaties that have been signed amongst nations shall perish, but our Everlasting God would remain. If I have such a God behind me whom shall I fear?
This is a truth that we must hold firmly onto because the Apostle Paul warns us that,
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people” (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
And the prophet Isaiah adds,
“Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble” (Isaiah 40:24).
The bad times are upon us. The daily news is filled with the most atrocious of brutalities. Families are tearing apart. Whatever is planted in the morning is torn up by the evening. Relationships are bursting at their seams. People are giving up hope. Suicide rates are rising. But in the midst of all these Christians find hope. It is only those who by grace run into the Strong Tower of the Name (Proverbs 18:10) of El Olam will be safe, not only in this life but forever in eternity.
If you're going through difficult times right now and feel like God won't be able to help you, try thinking about His name, "Everlasting God." The Holy Spirit will use this truth to change the way you think and give you peace, even when things are tough.