Today’s 333 Devotional: “Abba, Father”

There is something about a father.

A father’s attributes and characteristics are passed down to his children. How often do we hear how our children are just like us? I would sometimes hear how I was just like my father, and why not; his DNA is a part of my DNA.

This is no different with our heavenly Father. We should want to be just like Him, and why not, we were made in His image and after His likeness. In other words, His DNA is within us.

Jesus called God Father and told us to call God our Father as well. God wants us to know and relate to Him like a father.

It was such a name that both Jesus and Paul used in describing God as a Father in whom we can come into His presence and have a relationship with. It’s the name “Abba.”

“Abba” is the Aramaic word for “father,” but carries the idea of intimacy, which has been translated as “Daddy.” or “Papa.” So, our heavenly Father is not cold, aloof, or uncaring, but is there when we call out in times of trouble.

In the Garden Jesus prayed to Abba Father.

“Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.” (Mark 14:36)

Paul tells us this is the type of relationship that we can have with God, that He can be our Daddy through faith in Jesus Christ.

“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father.’” (Romans 8:15)

And because we are now called children of God, He has sent His Spirit, the Holy Spirit into our hearts where we truly know Him as Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6)

Let’s remember that God is Spirit and that we call Him Abba through the Holy Spirit, which God renews our soul and spirit through.