DAY 612 - Daddy, I Love You (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Galatians 4:1-7

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Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=加 拉 太 書 4&version=CUV 

Bible Study

      Paul leads us to enter into a deeper relationship with our Heavenly Father in this passage. Not only we do not need a babysitter, as mature children of God we need to enter into an intimate personal relationship with Him. We are slave no more, we are free enjoying the love of our Father each day.  

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      These verses are full of the language of Exodus.  God called Moses to lead Israel out of slavery in Egypt into freedom, to inherit the promised land…When the people had left Egypt, they came to Sinai, 40 days after Passover; and they were given the law as their guide through the wilderness to their inheritance…
     But then comes the new Passover.  God sent out, not Moses, but his own son, Jesus the Messiah, so that through his death freedom could be bought and the slaves could become true children.  Not only so: 40 days after Passover, on the feast of Pentecost, God gave, not the law, but his own spirit, the spirit of his son, to turn his people into his true children in their innermost beings as well as in legal status.  The evidence of this is that, when the spirit has been at work, the prayer which arises unbidden from their hearts is the prayer of Jesus, calling God by the familiar Aramaic name, Abba, Daddy. (Abba was used by adult Jewish children as well as young ones; the point is not the age of the child, but the intimacy and familiarity of the word.) 
    

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Galatians and Thessalonians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.45-46.
     

      How intimate are you with your Heavenly Father? Have you called Him 'Daddy' before?  

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Daddy, I love you

    What I got from Jesus today is an invitation for us to call our Heavenly Father just like what Jesus does. How do you feel about this invitation? What if this is really and truly an invitation from Jesus and not from me.

    Bishop N.T. Wright uses two words to show that loving relationship: intimacy, familiarity. I have been using two words much more the same as Bishop Wright for many years: intimate, personal.

    How about trying this new address to our Heavenly Father for a few days and see how it goes? I am quite sure that you are going to hear from Him like this:

    My son, I love you too!
    My daughter, I love you too! 

Daddy,

Thank you for reminding us that we need to use the most intimate word to call you whenever we pray. I love you, Daddy. Help us to enter into an intimate personal relationship with you each day. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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