The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Romans 8:15-16
The intimacy of calling God “Father” is the privilege we get when we come into the family of God.
Unfortunately sometimes people see God as this big dictator in the sky ready to strike us down when we do something wrong.
But nothing could be further from the truth.
We are invited in and adopted into God’s family. He is seeks a deep intimate relationship with each of us to the point of calling him Daddy!
The God I know is loving and kind, sweet and generous.
He doesn’t look down at us like slaves to be bossed around, living in fear of our master. But as his beautiful children.
He is our Abba, Daddy and he wants to nurture and help us grow in a safe loving environment, just as any father does.
We get to call him Daddy, so seek him out as a child and look for that loving embrace of our heavenly Father.
