God is bigger than our problems! He is bigger than our diagnosis. He is bigger than our relationships. He is bigger in power, size and strength. The world has many gods to choose from. We can fall into the trap of making any number of them gods in our lives. Maybe it is fame and fortune. Maybe it is drugs both legal and illegal. Maybe it is our significant other. They are all as poor a god as Baal was so many centuries ago. Fame and money are hard taskmasters. Drugs and addiction come with unseen costs. Significant others can always let you down. The gods of this world are not mighty, only the one true God is!
The Prophet Isaiah also points out that Jesus Christ is the Everlasting Father. He is our creator beloved! He knows all the minute details of our lives:
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Matthew 10:30
As our Father, God sees everything we are going through. Sometimes it can feel as if we are alone but the Bible assures us that He never leaves us. If we feel more distant to God at any point in our life we must remember that it is not God who moved. No matter what we are going through, God is acutely aware of it all and even more so:
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Psalm 56: 8 (ESV)
God actually counts the times we toss and turn in this life. Our very tears He saves. We are precious to God as His creation. The tossings and the tears build our character and help mold us into the image of God Himself. It is through Him alone that we will find the victory. The key to that victory is in the adjective used with Father in our key verse everlasting! God is not just any father. He is the Everlasting Father. Jesus was there at the beginning of time and He is coming again. Whatever we choose to put our faith in this world, it will fade with time. The greatest nations have all fallen to the sands of time. The most powerful rulers have all passed away. Entire civilizations have come and gone through the pages of history but only God is constant. Only God is everlasting to us. He will not change. He will not fade. What a gift we have in that!
Lastly, the Prophet Isaiah also teaches us that Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace! Hallelujah! We can almost boil down any problem we face personally or as a nation to a lack of peace. Wars are started and waged to acquire peace. Problems in relationships stem from a lack of peace. The addicted have no peace in their lives, so they seek out something to numb the lack of peace.
And what is peace? The dictionary defines it as a freedom from any strife, dissension, annoyance, distraction, anxiety, or obsession. What are all of those things we seek freedom from? Bondages. The world wants us wrapped up, entangled, and weighed down by the chains of bondage. We can be overly obsessed, suffer from anxiety or live in a constant state of strife. That is how the enemy wants us. BOUND. No freedom in life. This is true for believers and non-believers. Christians can understand their salvation, be assured of their eternal life, and yet still crawl through this world bound by the enemy. The Bible is filled with stories of people who were bound only to be set free by the Prince of Peace. The woman with the issue of blood was bound by her medical condition for 12 years before she came to Christ. The woman at the well had spent her life bound by lust and inappropriate relationships before the peace of God rest upon her. We too can walk through our lives bound by the very things Christ came to earth to free us from. Galatians teaches us:
