In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles[b] of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. Galatians 4 It is the Spirit within us, of Jesus himself who was given for us that cries out “Abba! Father!”
It is not weakness. It is not shame. It is the Spirit of Jesus. And what a phenomenal, deep and wide and unsearchable relationship Jesus has with the Father. God does not only give permission for this, but has fundamentally created it this way. And when humanity turned away from the way he created things, he ran after us relentlessly and gave all of himself and all that he had to bring us back to it. This idea that all that Jesus has is now mine (ours) because of his work on the cross- is because God never created it to be any different. He never created us to live outside of the close proximity of an intimate relationship in which we may cry “Abba! Father!” in need of him, and his nearness. Your longing for something greater, your crying out in pain and in weakness, or your need for his nearness is not your shame. It is instead your honor, because you are not only permitted but created to live in intimacy with a Father, who designed you this way. He is the King. All things bow to him, and yet you live as his Beloved and in his favor, because of Jesus in you. It is good to cry out Abba, Father. It was what you were created for, and it is this ability to be in this relationship that will satisfy you. -Toryanna
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