Jehovah Is Always There For Us

"Even from time to time indefinite to time indefinite your are God," sang the psalmist. "Time indefinite" can refer to things that have an end but the duration of which has not been specified. (Exodus 31:16, 17; Hebrews 9:15) At Psalm 90:2 and elsewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures though, "time indefinite" means "eternal." (Ecclesiastes 1:4) Our minds cannot understand how it is possible that God has always existed. Yet, Jehovah had not beginning and will have no end. (Habakkuk 1:12) He will always be alive and ready to help us.

The psalmist was inspired to equate a thousand years of human existence with a very short time in the experience of the eternal Creator. Addressing God, he wrote: " You make mortal man go back to crushed matter, and you say: ' Go back, you sons of men.' For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch during the night." - Psalm 90:3, 4.

Man is mortal, and God makes him "go back to crushed matter." That is, man returns "to dust," as crusted or pulverized, earth. In effect, Jehovah says: 'Go back to the dust of the ground from which you were made.' (Genesis 2:7; 3:19) This applies to all -strong or weak, rich or poor - for no imperfect human 'can by any means redeem even a brother, nor give to God a ransom for him, that he should live forever.' (Psalm 49:6-9 But how thankful we are that 'God gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might have everlasting life'! - John 3:16; Romans 6:23

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