He Is Series- El Olam (Everlasting God) — When You Need to Know God Won’t Give Up on You

Isaiah 40:28 “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.”

Today was are talking about the name El Olam. This name did not come from this passage. I just thought this passage was a good one to help us understand the name better. The name actually comes from Genesis 21:33, which says, “Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.” Abraham planted this tree after he and Abimelech made a covenant that God would deal with Abimelech loyally, since that is how Abimelech dealt with Abraham.

I thought that today’s verse gave us a bit more context as to how the Lord is everlasting. However, I did look up in the Enduring Word commentary online to see if I was missing something about the original verse where we heard El Olam. It said two things. First, after the successful treaty, Abraham did something that looked forward to the coming decades and generations. A tamarisk tree takes a long time to grow, but Abraham knew God had promised the land to him and his descendants forever.

This is a powerful point because sometimes we can be afraid to plant roots somewhere or to let people in because we aren’t sure what will happen next. We don’t trust that we will stay there long or that the people will be in our lives long enough. We put up walls to keep people out so that we don’t get hurt. Abraham could have done this, too. He could have done any number of things to commemorate this event, but he didn’t. What he did was plant a tree that takes a long time to grow, with the expectation that it will be around for generations, and his ancestors will also be there to take care of it. Abraham knew that God had promised the land to him and his descendants forever. He was trusting in this promise and moving forward as if it were already true, even though they were currently living as aliens in that land.

Second, even through this time of conflict in Abraham’s family and among his neighbors, Abraham kept a real, live walk with God. Conflict did not drive him away from God; rather, it pushed him closer to the Lord. Earlier in Chapter 21, Sarah and Abraham finally had their long-awaited son, Isaac. I am sure there was so much happiness and celebration, as I believe they had to wait 20 or 25 years after God promised them this son before they had the son. Then, in the middle of chapter 21, Sarah sees her son playing with the slave girl’s son, Abraham’s other son, and Sarah tells Abraham he has to send that woman and his son away. Abraham is upset about this, but the Lord told him not to worry and to do as Sarah had said. That is a lot that Abraham was going through. Yet He never turned away from the Lord; He just kept growing closer to Him. Wouldn’t it be great if it were the same for all of us?

Wouldn’t it be great if hard times pulled us in closer to the Lord, instead of driving us away? Wouldn’t it be great if we believed in his promises as Abraham did? The promises in Scripture are for all of us. We can count on them. We can have expectant faith that God will follow through with them. We can plant trees that need lots of time to grow because we know that God is with us forever, not just for a short time.

Let’s look at today’s scripture, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.” El Olam, God is everlasting! God is the creator of the ends of the Earth. He is the Beginning and the End. He was always here before anything else, and He will be here long after we are gone. He will be here long after the Earth is destroyed. God will always be around. I know this can be an overwhelming thought. I used to be very scared of eternity and living forever. I used to worry, what if I get bored, what if I just want it all to be over, what will I do if I can’t handle doing something forever?

This is not what we are talking about here in this verse. I think in this verse, we are talking about what the rest of the verse talks about. “He will not grow tired or weary.” I thought of two things when I read this. The first was, " Wouldn’t that be nice? Wouldn’t it be nice not to grow tired or weary? I know a lot of us have been feeling tired and weary lately. A lot is going on in our world, and we are ready for a break. This is why my first thought was, "Wouldn’t that be nice?” My second thought was, do we believe this? Do we believe that God doesn’t grow tired and weary? I wondered this because I feel as though we often treat God as though this is not true. We treat God as if He is not the almighty and powerful Lord who does not grow tired or weary.

I say this because we tend to be cautious with our prayers. We save up our prayers for the really important times, as if we only get so many, and we don’t want to run out. This may sound silly, but you know you have all thought that at one time or another. Maybe you didn’t think that exact thought, but you did hold back from asking God for something because it wasn’t that important, and He had bigger things to think about. We have all done this. We want to pray that our child wins the football game, but then we feel guilty because there are people with real problems, and we are taking God’s attention away from them to ask Him to help our kids win a football game or to help me find a parking spot. This verse tells us something we already know on some level but have trouble believing. God does not grow tired or weary. God can help you with your small request and help someone else with their giant request all at the same time. He can do it all and still not grow tired or weary. He is that amazing.

Another thing that just popped into my mind when I read that last part back was that we may feel that God will grow weary of us. In this world, we all have our own insecurities, and we are all in relationships with other humans, and that means none of us is perfect. We may have people in our lives who feel as though we are weary with them, or maybe we are the ones who feel our loved ones are weary with us. If you feel this way, you are not alone. Also, God does not ever grow weary with you! Please hear me when I say that. You are not bothering Him; you are not a bother to Him. God loves you, and He loves every single time you come and talk with him. He doesn’t care if you are coming and asking Him to heal your hang nail or if you need Him to cure cancer. He just wants you to come to Him.

The next line in the verse says that no one can fathom his understanding. We can’t even begin to understand all that the Lord knows. We see how He is working in our lives, and we think He is a little crazy, or that He is upset with us because things aren’t going our way. We don’t understand that all these things are happening so that His plan for us to have ridiculous goodness can come to fruition. We needed to lose that job to get this better one. We needed to lose that sense of security to appreciate it when we regained it. We needed to go through that hard time to show someone else they can get through it, too. We can’t fathom the Lord’s understanding. It’s just like it says in Isaiah 55:8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. The Lord knows what He is doing. It is ok if we don’t understand. It will all make sense one day.

Can you see how both of those things, His not growing weary and the fact that He has a plan for each one of our lives, help show us that God is Everlasting? When I looked up the word everlasting I got three definitions. First, it said, “Lasting forever; eternal.” I think we can all agree that the Lord fits that first definition. The second one was, “Continuing indefinitely or for a long period of time.” This one goes along with the fact that God does not grow weary. He can go on and on, and he never gets tired, he never grows weary. God never needs a break. The third one talks about persistence. I think we can definitely say that the Lord is persistent. We tend to make the same mistakes over and over again, and yet the Lord is so patient with us, and He is persistent in his mission to bring all of His children home to heaven. God is everlasting!

Dear El Olam, I pray you bless all those listening to this episode. Lord, we love you, and we are so grateful you are Everlasting. We are grateful that we never have to go through a day without you. We ask that you help us understand what this really means to each one of us. How does our life change once we realize you are Everlasting? Your love and mercy are Everlasting. That you are always with us. We ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’s holy name, Amen!

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow. Remember, Jesus loves you just as you are, and so do I! Have a blessed day.

Today’s Word from the Lord was received in October 2025 by a member of my Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group. If you have any questions about the prayer group, these words, or how to join us for a meeting, please email CatholicCharismaticPrayerGroup@gmail.com. Today’s Word from the Lord is, “Ever know my children that I love you.”

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