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READ: PSALMS 90:1-4; 136:1; 2 PETER 3:8-9\n\n\n\nWe humans were made to be curious creatures. God made us to learn and to always be full of questions about Him and the world He made. One deep question we very quickly reach is: \u201cWho or what made God? If every effect has a cause, what caused God to exist?\u201d\n\n\n\nThe answer is, nobody made God; nothing caused God to exist. He didn\u2019t come from anywhere\u2014He just always was. Our minds are finite and limited, and there are some things we can\u2019t fully understand as humans. It\u2019s hard to wrap our minds around the fact that God is eternal, which means having no beginning and no end. God always existed and always will exist.\n\n\n\nPerhaps the closest image we have is a circle. Where does it begin or end? Technically, nowhere. And that\u2019s kind of like God. He is the Eternal One. He never had a beginning, and He has no ending. We think of our lives in minutes and days and weeks and years, but with God, it isn\u2019t like that. Second Peter 3:8 says, \u201cWith the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.\u201d\n\n\n\nAnd because God has no beginning and no end, His love is like that too. We see God\u2019s never-ending, unconditional love on display when Jesus, God the Son, willingly became human and died on the cross for us. But the Eternal One couldn\u2019t be held by death. After three days in a tomb, Jesus rose from the grave, defeating sin and death once and for all so that we could live with Him\u2014forever. No matter what, His love for us will never end. \u2022 A. W. Smith\n\n\n\n\u2022 God\u2019s eternal nature is a mystery to our brains. What are some other mysteries about God that you wonder about? Who are trusted people in your life you could talk with about these wonderful mysteries?\n\n\n\n\u2022 How can God\u2019s eternal, unchanging, unconditional love for us give us comfort in tough times?\n\n\n\nBefore the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:2 (NIV)