I CALL HIM ABBA! YOU DARE!
Hallowed be thy name, ABBA in Heaven. I call you Holy Holy Holy, Lord
God Almighty. The reality of your magnitude fills me with awe and so
much reverence. All thy works shall praise your name in earth and sky
and in the sea.
If mortals refuse to praise your name, you will raise up inanimates.
ABBA, please don’t replace me with stones! Luke 19: 40.
Only thou art holy; there is none beside thee. You are merciful,
mighty and perfect in power, in love and in purity.
In your palatial courts, all the saints cast down their golden crowns
to adore thee! Even the cherubims and seraphims fall down before
thee... I bow before your throne, my ABBA!
Let your kingdom already established ion Jesus be acknowledged by the
earth. Please allow your will to hold sway in my life. More than ever
before and henceforth, it is the cry of my heart to be in the very
centre of your will, ABBA!
I ask ABBA that your righteousness be mine, for we both know that I
have none initiated – Isaiah 64: 6.
Only the saved from sin can call God, ABBA! The indwelling Holy Spirit
gives us assurance that we are indeed children of God and our eternal
inheritance which we share as co-heirs with Jesus at adoption into His
kingdom. He rewards our belief in Him with this consequential
privilege of calling Him ABBA and meaning exactly that!
God’s redemption reaches first at the spiritual level. One standing in
Christ and that of a regenerating work of the Holy Spirit in man.
Through identification by faith in Christ, we are adopted into God’s
family and with all privileges of an heir, born anew into the kingdom,
partaker of the divine nature and loved by the Father – ABBA! ...“
because we had escaped the moral rottenness and corruption in the
world” II Peter 1: 4.
So, we have conferred on us by Jesus, the status of being children of
the Father, with the Holy Spirit in our hearts. All three persons of
the trinity unite in the believer’s interest. The Holy Spirit also
ensures the freedom that children enjoy with their Father. ...“but you
have received the spirit of adoption, the spirit producing sonship is
the bliss of which we cry ABBA! Father! Romans 8: 15b.
The bliss of which we can BOLDLY cry ABBA! The Church, i.e the
congregation of believers in Christ, the chosen, the redeemed of God,
this beloved covenant child reading this piece is the centre of God’s
plan of salvation. You reflect the wisdom of God – ABBA, that comes
into being through the son – Christ’s work of redemption on the cross
as God had planned. This means that believers in Christ who were
aforetime fearful strangers, can now approach ABBA with freedom and
confidence that is not the human self confidence but one rooted in the
divine knowledge of being in Christ and having faith in Him. For the
Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirits that we are now children of
God – John 1: 12. “so let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious
God – ABBA. There we will receive His mercy and we will find grace to
help us when we need it most” Hebrews 4: 16.
No where does Christ assume that this relationship exists between God
and unbelievers. He never teaches that a redeeming fatherhood of God
includes all men but pointedly lashes at the censorious Jews. “Ye are
of your father the devil” John 8: 44. Your attitude towards Jesus is
what makes the difference between having true descent from Abraham or
not; between being a legitimate of God’s family or an illegitimate.
My friend, your membership in this family is not affected by your self
acclamations to have God as Father, but it is by your relationship
with the son – Jesus Christ, For the Bible CONCLUDES that no one
reaches the Father – ABBA, except via the Son. John 14: 6.
Quit being a “dog”! Matthew 15: 26. For at this great and divine
visitation of ABBA, He is set to cause a vast difference between the
lives of those resolutely committed to Him and those who never care
to! For ABBA has rightly pointed that it is not right to take the
children’s bread and toss it to their dogs!
Dare to call Him, ABBA – O Covenant Child, sinner friend and
backslider. How long will you waver and hesitate to return? Jeremiah
31: 22a. For thus sayeth ABBA: “COME to me; you heavy laden and
overburdened with sin, with gross moral decadence and I will give you
rest, I will ease, relieve and refreshen your souls” Matthew 11: 28.
ALLOW God to be your ABBA!
ayanfeLAMPROS