Your name is your handle used in
conversation and all of life’s interactions.
Those who know us on a more intimate level can dare to violate that code
of ethics and use a pet name or shortened version of our name. With spouses, we come up with a dozen labels
to apply, and they run the gamut from Sweetie, Baby-doll, Honey, My Love, Sugar-babe,
and on and on.
Can you imagine walking up to Prince
William and Princesses Kate and shouting out “Hey Willie? Hey Katie.
How’s it going?” That would be a
great and grievous social affront and in exceedingly poor taste.
However …
HOWEVER – there is one to whom we can go
and use the most endearing of terms – and the term is "Abba". Papa.
God delights in the inflection of the term Abba Father. That is what historically a young Jewish
child would call his/her parents and it represents the greatest of respect and
greatest of love and affection.
Brennan Manning helps us unlock this one
concept a bit more.
“To address
God as Abba is the boldest and simplest expression of the absolute trust that
God is good and that He is on our side.”
The phrase – God is on our side –
jumps out to me today. I take great
comfort from that thought. God is on my
side.
When I face the Goliaths today He is
there.
When contrary thoughts plague my mind, He
is present.
When temptations bombard my borders, God
is there in my defense.
My prayer is that you will find great comfort
in these words today.
Happy Sunday.
Here is a parting verse.
“That as
tenderly as a father
treats his
children, so Yahweh
treats those
who fear him”
~(Ps
103:13)
P Michael
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