Christmas 2025: “EVERLASTING FATHER”
When Isaiah called the Messiah “Everlasting Father,” he was inviting us to see the heart of Jesus in a way that stretches past time, past circumstance, past the limits of our own understanding (Isaiah 9:6). He was not blurring the lines of the Godhead, as if the Son and the Father were the same Person; he was showing us the nature of the One who would come. Jesus would step into the world as a child, yet He would carry Himself with the eternal authority of heaven; He would walk dusty roads, yet He would hold the ages in His hands. Isaiah’s language tells us that the Messiah would be the Father of the age to come—the One who begins it, sustains it, and rules it with a tenderness that never grows weary.
And when you watch Jesus move across the pages of the Gospels, you see that Fatherly heart everywhere. You see it when He gathers the little ones near; when He lifts the broken; when He welcomes the outcast; when He calls the weary to come and find rest (Matthew 11:28–30). He shepherds like the Lord of Psalm 23, restoring the soul and steadying the steps. He gathers like the Servant of Isaiah 40:11, carrying the lambs in His arms. Every act of compassion, every word of mercy, every moment of patience rings with that same eternal kindness that Isaiah had seen long before Bethlehem ever felt the breath of God.
Jesus is everlasting—unchanging, unbroken, unhindered by the rise and fall of the kingdoms of this world. Micah said His goings forth were from everlasting (Micah 5:2). John said that in the beginning He already was, and that all things came into being through Him (John 1:1–3). Paul declared that He is before all things, and that in Him all things hold together (Colossians 1:17). And the writer of Hebrews sealed it by reminding us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). The One who walked among fishermen and tax collectors is the same One who reigns above every principality and power (Ephesians 1:20–22).
So when Isaiah names Him “Everlasting Father,” he is showing us the Messiah who refuses to abandon His people. He is the Father of the redeemed—because through suffering He brought many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10). He is the Father of the new creation—because He makes one new man from all nations (Ephesians 2:14–18). He is the Father of the eternal kingdom—because His dominion will never pass away (Daniel 7:13–14). Jesus is the One who holds us, keeps us, protects us, and calls us His own. And in a world full of shifting shadows, that is the kind of Fatherliness we need—the everlasting kind, the Christ kind, the kind that never ends.
BDD
