Abba's Will

There are times that we are familiar with a verse of Scripture but the richness of it's meaning seems to be hidden like some great mystery, then all the sudden in a moment of illumination and light the words on the page become real in our heart.  I was deep in prayer to God crying out to Him from my heart, when the verses when Jesus said, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done." (Luke 22:42) were opened up in a new way.  What came crashing in on me in that moment was that the Father's will was to have Jesus die as the sacrafice that would atone for my sin and reconcile me back into a relationship with the Father.  I knew this concept in my mind but when the Holy Spirit highlighted it to me that from the Father's heart He so wanted a relationship with me that His Son was worth the price, I was again flooded with the love of the Father.  I love the Word of God but the Word combined with the touch of the Holy Spirit who wrote the book is what I was created for, real relationship with my Abba.  I pray that as the people of God we will not settle for proper theology, playing church, and wrote prayers but will cry out for real encounters with the "Living God".  This deep cry coming from our new spirit united to Christ leads us into to divine encounters, our mind can't lead us there and neither can religion.  Know today that the will of Your Abba was for His own Son to die as the final sacrafice that give us into intimate access to the Holy of Holies and real relationship with the God Almighty.  You may have heard something like this in church many times but "familiarity often breeds contempt" instead of the wonder and the awe when the Holy Spirit breathes life on something we have only seen as a shadow previously.  As we understand that Abba's will was that Jesus sacrafice His life to reconcile us to our Father, we must see that there is so much behind "God's will".  There are thousands of propehcies speaking of the Messiah and His sacrafice, it is even propehsied in the book of Genesis after the Fall.  The point is that "God's will" is not some passing wish but a burning desire birthed in the very heart of God over thousands of years to be reconciled to you.  I believe for us to experience Abba's will personally is so critical in a world where we can easily generalize or depersonalize something to apply to the masses.  The Gospel is personal, even though John 3:16 says that the invitation is to the world.  Yet God seeks an intensley personal and intimate relationship with each unique person, losing this reality means that we become legalistic, stale, and mechanical.  I love to see how God encounters people uniquely, lovingly, and personally to win the affections of their hearts and make them His own.  I believe the Father longs for us to encounter Him being caught up by His loving, restorative, and life-giving words which make our soul come to life even more.  Are you willing to push past the barriers of unbelief, doubt, shame, guilt, lies, and the ever present to do list to have this kind of encounter with your Abba?

Learning His Love,
Bret