Read it: Isaiah 9:6-7 / Revelation 22:13 / John 1:1-18
Live it:
Isaiah’s fourth name for the Messiah is found in Isaiah 9:6 and is Everlasting Father. The word everlasting could be substituted with the word eternity, meaning forever or never-ending. Our God is never-ending. He is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. God has always been. There was not a beginning to God, and He will never end. God is not a person who was born, and He will never die. He is the infinite God who is forever.
Isaiah refers to the Messiah as the Everlasting Father. The Messiah who was to come was not the first person in the Trinity. He was not God the Father. When Isaiah wrote these words, he was prophesying about the Messiah as the Everlasting Father. We know that the Messiah is God, and we read in the New Testament that Jesus is the Messiah who was fully God and fully man. In John 10 we read that Jesus declares that He and the Father are one; they are both God. In John 5 and 6 we see that the Son of God only does the will of His Father. The Messiah came to reveal the Heavenly Father to the people. Our God is a Father to the fatherless. He cares for the brokenhearted.
Many times when we hear God called Father, we immediately think of our earthly Father. For some, our earthly fathers were great fathers (not perfect but they were good), but for others, our earthly fathers were not so good or maybe even absent. God is not human that He would sin, lie or abandon us. He is the true, good, perfect never-ending Father. Allow God to be your Father, to comfort you, to discipline you, to guide you, and to love you like His child.
Becca