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The Wonderful Implications of God Being Our “Abba Father”
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“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49:15-16
“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
There is no greater love than our Abba Jehovah. We can search the eyes of those we encounter, watching and perhaps waiting for a flutter or spark or word that might appear to be what we have conjured up in our minds to be love. We might even find some wonderful attributes hiding behind some of those eyes, but what we find will be merely veneer. The scripture tells us that God is love. Most of us (if not all) will experience some type of insecurity in the love of a parent, sibling, child, spouse, friend etc. Every one of these will fail us, because they have not been perfected in love. We must abide in Him and Him in us in order for His love to be perfected in us. This is an ongoing process. In all of our uncertainties, we can be absolutely certain about this One truth; God's love for us is unfailing. He cannot be anything else than perfect love. It is impossible for Him to dwell in or with darkness. He dwells in unapproachable light!
He is LOVE!
Beloved, let us love one another for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:7-12
