Everlasting

God wants you to experience peace. A deep, settled peace. An unexplainable peace. A continual peace that is experienced every day. A peace that is felt all the way to heaven. That peace can only be delivered by Yahweh Shalom. Let me set the context for today’s passage.

The prophet Jeremiah declared that the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. But what if it did? Jeremiah said that God’s mercies never come to an end (Lam. 3:22). But what if they did? How do we know that God will continue to be with us? Check out today’s passage.

Our passage today declares that the Lord is the everlasting God. Let’s read our passage and focus on what it means when we say that God is everlasting or eternal.

As we move through the week of Christmas, we are focusing on Jesus; the One Isaiah described as the “Everlasting Father.” 

While we live and work in time, God works outside of it. He is the eternal God who does all things perfectly. Nothing can be added or taken away to make what he has done better. Everything he does lasts forever. God’s construction cannot be destroyed.

His death paid the penalty for our sin. Through the Son of God and only through the Son of God can we have everlasting life. 

Jesus is the Everlasting Father. His authority spans eternity. His visit to earth was purposed to pay the penalty for our sins.

No one is responsible for God’s existence. He has always been, and he will never cease to be. He will never leave nor forsake us.

The Light of the World has come!