Eternity

Here is a paragraph from A. W. Tozer's classic "The Knowledge of the Holy." (pgs 40-41)

"When he was a very old man, Moses wrote the psalm . . . [in which] he celebrates the eternity of God. To him this truth is a solid theological fact as firm and as hard as that Mount Sinai with which he was so familiar, and for him it had two practical meanings: since God is eternal, He can be and continue forever to be the one safe home for His time-driven children. "Lord, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations." The second thought is less comforting: God's eternity is so long and our years on earth are so few, how shall we establish the work of our hands? How shall we escape the abrasive action of events that would wear us out and destroy us? God fills and dominates the psalm, so it is to Him that Moses makes his plaintive appeal, "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." May the knowledge of Thy eternity not be wasted on me!"