Before there was light, before there was matter, before there was even the first tick of what we call time — there was Someone.

Not something. Not a force. Someone.

Jehovah simply was.

We talk about beginnings because everything we touch has one. A cry marks the start of a life. A dawn announces the day. Even stars, those ancient fires in the heavens, are born and will one day burn out. But when Moses lifted his eyes and spoke to God, he said, “From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.” (Psalm 90:2, NWT)

That single verse steps beyond everything our minds can measure.

Try counting backward. Past your childhood, past Adam, past the first atom — and there He still is. Try counting forward, beyond tomorrow, beyond a thousand years, beyond the very idea of “end” — and there He remains. Jehovah doesn’t travel through time; time flows from Him.

Paul felt the same awe when he wrote, “O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge!” (Romans 11:33) His point wasn’t that we shouldn’t think — it’s that our thoughts will never find the bottom of that depth. The human mind can hold many things, but not infinity.

And yet, Jehovah asks us to trust what we can’t yet grasp. Jesus confirmed it when he said of God’s Word, “Your word is truth.” (John 17:17) If the Word says He had no beginning, then that is truth — whether or not our imagination can catch up.

We actually live with hints of this idea every day. Think of numbers. You can keep counting — 1, 2, 3 — and never find the last. Or count down forever and never reach the first. That’s how time stretches for Jehovah, except He stands outside the line completely. He isn’t aging along it. He’s the reason it exists at all.

Some people ask, “But who made God?” That question sounds clever until you chase it. If someone created God, then who created that someone? The circle never ends. There must be a starting point — not of time, but of being. And that starting point is Jehovah, “the King of eternity.” (1 Timothy 1:17)

Everything else — the angels, the galaxies, and yes, even Jesus himself — had a moment when they began. (Colossians 1:15-16) But not Jehovah. His existence never started and will never stop.

And that truth isn’t cold or distant. It’s warm. Because the same psalm that calls Him eternal also calls Him “a dwelling place for all generations.” (Psalm 90:1) His timelessness isn’t about being remote; it’s about permanence. He doesn’t fade, forget, or grow weary.

We come and go like shadows crossing a wall, but Jehovah remains the wall itself — solid, unmoving, sheltering. His endless past guarantees our endless future. The One who had no beginning offers us a life with no end.

That’s not philosophy. That’s comfort.

So when the world feels temporary and fragile, remember who holds it. The God who never began will never abandon what He has made. He was there before the first sunrise, and He’ll still be there when you awake in the new world’s dawn — unchanged, unending, and utterly faithful.

The Watchtower July 2010