PrintToday's "Moment with Mark" (93)
22 February, 2013
"Abba, Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will, not mine." (Mark 14:36 NLT)
In just a few hours Jesus will be made sin for us and His Father will seem to forsake Him. But even this close to that 'awful hour' He still walks in that close relationship with His Abba...His Father.
"Abba is the word framed by the lips of infants, and betokens unreasoning trust; "father" expresses an intelligent apprehension of the relationship. The two together express the love and intelligent confidence of the child". (from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words)
There is great security in being able to come before the Lord of the Universe, climb into His lap and call Him, "Abba" - unreasoning trust and intelligent confidence. In another place Jesus told His disciples that they would all forsake Him and leave Him alone. But He assured them that He would not be alone because His Father...His 'Abba' would be with Him.
Are you feeling somewhat alone lately? Does it feel as though God is not really interested in your circumstances...assuming He's still there?! Yet time after time He has promised (repeat, promised) never to leave us. Even when we face the 'big one' - the valley of the shadow of death - "I will fear no evil for you are with me." (Psalm 23).
Call Him Father. Keep doing it. Let Him become to you in experience what He is already in reality.
Abba Father.
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