Son's Spirit

"God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts crying, Abba, Father!" Galatians 4:6.

Closest relationship with God comes to those redeemed by Jesus, the Lord and Christ. The Word teaches that God begat Jesus as his unique son; it also asserts that God's own will made you his own through Christ. And because you are his, God sends into you the same spirit of his unique son, Jesus. The very sense Jesus had of being God's son, this same sense God places in you as his own child. The spirit God sends into you calls out to God as your father, your dad (abba). When you address God as Father, none other than the spirit of Christ prompts you. Your own heart, prompted by his spirit dwelling there, testifies to this truth as you call out to God, your dad, your father in heaven.

Reflect on this God whose own pleasure makes you his own. And give thanks. And share with another the nature of your real Father, your Dad.