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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Mark 14:36, “And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee.”
It takes time to cultivate a love relationship with the Lord.
This was demonstrated by the Lord’s own earthly life.
He repeatedly spent time with the Father, enjoying the Father’s love (Luke 5:16).
In Mark 14:36 we find Him in the garden of Gethsemane, where it was His habit to go and be with the Father (Luke 22:39).
Here He is once again pressing into the bosom of the Father while facing the critical hour of crucifixion.
Mark records that the Lord was saying repeatedly, “Abba, Father.”
This means that even when He became obedient unto death, the death of the cross, He did it by enjoying the Father’s love.
To say “Abba” is to call upon the Father in the most sweet and intimate way.
Now we must see that this same “Abba, Father” love-life has been sent into our hearts.
Paul declares, “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!” (Gal. 4:6).
What a joy!
What a hope!
The very prayer life of God’s Son is in our hearts.
The intimate love-life between the Father and the Son has been put into us.
We have it!
It is not a matter of trying to find it or longing to possess it.
We have the Triune God’s love-life within us.
And by virtue of our being a born-again Christian, we are entitled to merge in our hearts with the love flowing between the Father and the Son in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14).
The Lord’s love-life with the Father simply needs to be cultivated and released in us.
That life is in us twenty-four hours a day.
The same life that cried “Abba, Father,” the same life that withdrew so many times into the wilderness to pray, the same life that wanted to be with the Father alone–that life is in us.
And that life in us needs time.
The same life that took time to pray in the Gospels still needs time to pray in us.
The Spirit of His Son is located within our hearts, waiting for us to join in and cry “Abba, Father.”
What an indescribable enjoyment–that we could merge with the Son’s life which is ever pressing anew with equal intimacy into the bosom of the Father.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
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