Soul Sister Time

Abba, Father , he said, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will. Mark 14:36 Through the years of my spiritual journey, I have bumped into Scriptures that have both stunned and amazed me. The first was in the Gospel of Mark, when Jesus prayed to God as, Abba or Daddy in English (Mark 14:36). It became clear to me that I can call God Daddy when I read in Romans 8:14–17, 23; Galatians 3:26; 4:6; and Ephesians 1:4–5. Jesus invites me to settle in and cuddle up to the God who invites me to call Him Daddy . Although Daddy is the best English translation of Abba , so many people have told me that this word is foreign to them even in their human family relationships. It is so far from what Jesus is trying to teach us that really knowing God is more than knowing Him as Father; it is actually knowing Him as Daddy (or Dad, Papa, Pop). Every culture is invited to insert the name for father that signifies the closest intimacy you...

            June brings warmer, longer days, summer vacation and Father’s Day.    It’s a day to celebrate the role that God chose to identify with Himself, although no one really understood that God wanted us to see Him as our father until Jesus insisted that we follow Him in praying to Him in this way.               Moses was the first to describe God to us as our Father in Deuteronomy 1:31:   And in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place .   Although God always saw Himself as our Father, we could not see it until Christ showed this reality to us by coming to us as the Son of man and the Son of God.   David wrote of God as Father in Psalm 103:13: As a father has compassion on his children ,  so the Lord has compassion on those who fe...