"You received the spirit of sonship. And by him we cry "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children." Rom 8:15b-16
As mere humans, we tend to think of God as some wholly distant and unreachable being that is so far beyond us in every way imaginable that He is reduced to a concept. We are aware of his activities and interaction with mankind in the Old Testament writings, but we have nothing that compares to his cloudy, fiery, trumpeting, rumbling and lightening (among others) manifestations in our lives.
Beloved, let your faith close this distance. We have been adopted into His family. In ancient Hebrew, Roman and Greek cultures, even as it is in ours today, adoption was a frequent practice. Those who had no family and even those that did, were taken into the family of another and given all the rights and privileges of being a member of that family just as if they had been born into it. As members, they received their fair share of inheritances. Surely God has accomplished this in us, Rom 8:17.
This gives us the position and the privilege to call out to Him not only as God, but as Father and not just as Father but Abba. This word is derived from how infants referred to their fathers. Simply put, it is Daddy. The distance is closed by this familiarity. God is not just some far away, all powerful, all knowing Deity, but is our Daddy. His Spirit has verified this in us.
If you have viewed the Father as distant, "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you," Jas 4:8.
In Revival,
Lee
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