All through the New Testament we can see Jesus call God, Father except for one occasion when Jesus hung on the cross and God was forced to look away. Except for this one time Jesus always referred to God as “Father.” If you read in Matthew 6: 5-15 Jesus talks about praying to our Father in Heaven.
Jesus seemed to introduce a new intimacy with God that no one in the Old Testament had, through Jesus we become adopted children of God and therefore have the right to call Him Father. Therefore when we pray, God is our Father.
In Luke 11: 11-13 it talks about how an earthly father will not deprive their child of anything that they need and says therefore “… how much more will your Father in heaven…”
Jesus through His death on the cross opened a pathway of greater intimacy to the beauty of a Father, child relationship when we pray. So when you pray, pray to your Father, your Daddy, your Abba because God is that to you and when you pray He wants to listen and respond as a Father.
Sara Jukes
2003-07-28
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