Tuesday, 04 November 2008
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Iris To Iris
By Building 429
see relatedThe Love of the Father
When in your prayer time, you get to enjoy your Eden, your secret place, your precious possession, your source of oxygen, your deliverance, your lifeline. Nothing compares to it. Never forget that. Never let it diminish.This chorus from "Constant" by Building 429 gives a very good perspective of how we should view our relationship to the YHVH God, the Holy Father:
I am consumed with You
I can't live without You
Breathe without You
I must confess to You
That I can't live without You
Breathe without Your loveSince that chorus mentions love, let's continue with that thought...
Here is a picture of how much YHVH God the Holy Father loves us - of all the things He created, He spoke them into existence - except for man. Read Genesis chapter 2 and see it right there in the text. He formed us from the dust of the ground. The word "formed" means to shape with hands. He put His own hands into creating the first human being! Think of that. He didn't do that with anything else He created! Then once this human being was formed, He breathed His own breath into it to cause it to come to life! This is solid insight: The breath of God is the Holy Spirit. You see, in the Hebrew and in the Greek, the word for Spirit is defined as "a current of air, breath."
Another solid picture of His love for us is that He created all the planets, stars, etc. before He ever made man. The stars were all given a song to sing before man was created. Yet they sing for us. Look at this chorus from another Building 429 song:
You, You're singing over me
You're singing over me tonight
With every star that's in this midnight sky
You, You're singing over me
You're singing over me tonight
And my heart is overcome with Your song
with Your songYet another beautiful picture of His precious love for us is when He brought all the animals to Adam to be named. Think of it like this - a dad brings home a puppy for his little boy that he loves with all his heart and soul and he says to the boy, "Come here buddy, daddy brought you a puppy. What do you want to name it?"
I can't stop the tears just thinking about it. YHVH God the Holy Father did that over and over and over again with Adam... He kept lavishing His love on him over and over and over again...
"What do you want to name it son? Okay, I like that name, so that's what it is..." "By the way son, I love you."
"Wait son, here's another one. What do you want to name this one?" Okay, I like that name too, so that's what it is..." "I love you son..."Is it overwhelming yet? It's overwhelming me here, that's for sure...
And it doesn't stop there...
In Romans 8:15 it says that we have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry out Abba, Father.
Every culture on the planet has an endearing term for their fathers. For some it's daddy, dadda, pappa, for others, poppy (Japan) or pappy (Latin American countries). For me, I call my dad pop. He's the only one on the planet that gets that title from me. It's my endearing term for him.
Get this! Abba is Aramaic for just that! Abba is the most precious title a child can give a father. We get to love YHVH God as intensely as He loves us. We get to run into His arms with abandonment. We get to jump into His arms freely as a small child does to their loving parent / grandparent... no hesitation, no fear, no holding anything back... just pure abandonment...
Go to Him today... He's waiting with arms wide open... Listen... this is what He's saying...
With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I'll show you love
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
With arms wide openI hope this minsters to and blesses you as much as it continues to minister and bless me...
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