Abba Father

Often times, instead of taking the road less travelled, we embark on the road, well travelled. We follow the ideologies of man and the demands of a popular society and when we do this, so often we end up in the “oh woe is me’ category of life.

Sometimes, just because we do not know any better, we make the wrong decision, take the wrong option and end up in misery and despair.

Welcome to the world of so many. Many before and many after will make the wrong choice. But. There is hope!

Hos 13:9 O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in Me is your help.

As a people, the whole nation of Israel took the wrong direction. They opted for the popular choice and brought calamity upon themselves. But read and listen to the words of God. He does not condemn, He reminds them, that in Him, lies their salvation and their rescue.

Hos 14:4 I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall grow as the lily and cast out his roots like Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They who dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive like the grain, and grow like the vine. Their scent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

Ø “I will love them freely”. It is by His grace and His mercy, that we are saved, not by works. “I will heal their backslidings”. Try as we might, we can not heal ourselves, only the Great Physician, Jehovah Rapha, the Lord our Healer, can heal our iniquities.

Ø “for My anger has turned away from him”. In His grace and in His mercy, He no longer remembers our sin. Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Ø “I will be as the dew to Israel”, he will be the provider, He is Jehovah Jireh, the Lord our provider. He will never leave nor forsake those who cry out to Him.

Ø “They who dwell under his shadow shall return”. Psa 91:1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall rest under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of Jehovah, my refuge and my fortress; my God; in Him I will trust. 3 Surely He will deliver you from the fowler's trap and from the destroying plague. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall trust. His truth shall be your shield, and buckler.

Through our own actions and wrong choices, we may become lost and desperate, but we have a God who is more than able, a Father whose heart yearns after His children, a safe haven and a covenant, covered by a mercy seat.

All we have to do is cry out “Abba Father”