There are just some days when you just may not feel worthy to be called God’s child. You can’t identify anything that warrants or qualifies you for this amazing position. The temptation is to return to the Law, to do all you can to prove to yourself that you are back on track and that you are not as bad as you feel. Resist!
Welcome Holy Spirit! Where would we be without Him?!
“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.” (Galatians 4 v 4-7)
It has happened. Whether we feel it or not. The adoption scheme that through His mercy and grace brought you into His family and to be that child of God. Who did that? The Holy Spirit did and continues to remind you of this.
Today the Holy Spirit is speaking to you, prompting you, “Go on, call Him Father, call Him Abba.” This personal, intimate, familiar title is given only because of relationship with the Holy Spirit. Call Him Abba prayerfully, worshipfully and in surrender, no matter what is happening in your life. And see what happens!
The incredible blessing for every Christian today is that they can address God as Father. This personal, intimate, familiar title is given only because of relationship.
No one before Jesus called God this name.
No one after Jesus calls God, Father, except the followers of Jesus.
You have an enemy who is trying to get you to believe what he is saying to you. For what you believe you are is what you are and who you think you are is what you do. Why did sin happen? Adam didn’t know who he was and tried to become someone he wasn’t. The accuser said “If you do this then you will be like God.”
He should have said “stupid snake I am already like God. Why try and become what I already am?” But he didn’t and he became what God had not intended.
You are a child of God, belonging to Him, adopted to Him.
Whatever you are going through today one of the roles of the Holy Spirit and the reason God sent Him is to remind you of who you are. It is to say to you that ‘you are no longer a slave’ but you are an adopted child of the Father.
God wants you plunged into Him, thrown into a relationship that you can know but whose name is far too mysterious for you.
Your identity soaked into His identity. A baptism of mystery and meaning. Of closeness and transcendence.
To your Father!
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