The Morning Psalm
Names of God

El Olam

The Everlasting God

Pronounced el oh-LAHM

And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Genesis 21:33, KJV

El Olam — “the everlasting God” — is the name Abraham called on at Beersheba, planting a tree and worshipping the God who has no end. It speaks of God's eternity, his existence beyond all time.

“Olam” means everlasting, ancient, without limit in duration. Where everything we know begins and ends, God simply is — from everlasting to everlasting, as the psalms say.

This name steadies us in a world of change and loss. Empires rise and fall, seasons pass, and our own days are short — but the everlasting God remains the same, unchanged by time.

El Olam is the God you can build your life on precisely because he outlasts everything else. The One who has always been, and always will be, holds your fleeting days in his eternal hands.

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