Everlasting Father

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)

We have looked at the first two descriptions of the Messiah given in this wonderful passage by the Prophet Isaiah.  Today we will look at the third, Everlasting Father. Truly great is the mystery of godliness!  Throughout Scriptures we see glimpses of God that seem to overwhelm us.  Many doctrines and theologies have tried to explain God but they all seem to give us a blurry picture of something too big to fit in the lens of mans camera.  Consider John 1:1-4

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of men. “

Jesus was with God and He was God.  We don’t say of ourselves that we were with us. I am here.  I can’t be with me because I am me.  So this passage seems to infer that Jesus and God can exist together in the same place yet it clearly states that Jesus was God.  If it sounds like I am going in circles, well, great is the mystery of godliness.  My purpose today is not to try and settle the differences between the Oneness Theology and the Trinity Theology.  I have looked at them both in detail and honestly it is not critical to my salvation.  It is not worth the time to argue.  I have wonderful friends that are Oneness and others that are Trinitarian.  Both sides believe that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and resurrected, caught up into Heaven and is coming soon.  Enough said!

The Prophet calls Jesus Everlasting Father and that tells us about who He is in relation to us.  He is everlasting.  His kingdom will know no end.  He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.  Before the world Jesus was and when there is nothing left but cosmic dust He will remain.  I know that I can depend on Jesus.  There will never come a day that He will not be with me.  Because He is eternal I know that His promises to me are eternal.  I don’t know about you but that stirs a firestorm within my soul.  I can’t completely understand why but there is a part of me that needs “everlasting”.  All that I have and all that I survey in this life has a beginning and end.  I know that there is a timer ticking away on every relationship, every possession, every day.  But with Jesus that knowledge is wiped away and the fear that it creates is vanquished.

Jesus is the everlasting Father!  In this day and age with absentee father’s it is easy to forget what that means to us.  Father’s love their children.  They give their lives for them and labor so that every need is met.  Father’s lead us and guide us in the path that we should travel.  They are not tyrants but they are the givers of life.  Jesus came that we might have life.  He came to show us the way. He came so that we might have life and more abundantly.  He doesn’t want us to barely survive, Jesus wants us to thrive.

As you say the words, Everlasting Father, I invite to you trust in Jesus.  If He is for you, who can be against you?