In other words, it through the sacrifice of God’s only begotten Son that He has purchased for Himself many sons and daughters to forever identify Himself as their Father. 15).ĭid you catch that? Believer, you can have the boldness-the audacity-to call the God of the universe your Father! And not a cold, removed father but rather One who invites you into His open arms shouting, “Abba!”…Daddy! You have been adopted as one of His children not on the basis of anything you have done, but at the immense cost of God’s One and only Son who bore your sins in His body on the cross-so that now when your Heavenly Father looks at you He no longer sees your sin but rather He sees the perfect righteousness of Jesus. Therefore, for all who have accepted the Spirit of God into their lives through faith Paul gives the gloriously good news that “you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’” (v. And now, because of Jesus’ sacrifice, Paul explains that “all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God” (v. 1) because He bore our sin and condemnation on the cross “in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us” (v. One of those places is in Romans 8 where Paul has just finished explaining that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (v. In the New Testament God is often referred to as our Father. However, as a father to a child in heaven, my perspective on what it means that God is our Heavenly Father has taken on an even deeper meaning. I had always heard that becoming a father brings a whole new perspective to our Christian walk since it helps us to more fully appreciate what it means that God identifies Himself as our Father. My first Father’s Day was exactly 2 months after our daughter was born into glory.

This will be my fourth Father’s Day as a father.

Arms of hope