Revealing Abba in the Psalms | How Jesus saw God as Abba

Revealing Abba in Psalm 16

O Abba it is You who keeps watch over My life to preserve it; Into Your hands do I trust My life;

You have spoken to My heart O Abba, that the everlasting kindness that You shall show forth in Me, will be a sign of the same glory to be revealed in all people in the earth who call upon Your name Abba; Your beloved in whom is all Your delight;

Those who are quick to trust in the works of their own hand will only find their sorrow and distress increases; Your life, Abba, contains no mixture; it contains no partaking of the way that brings death, nor will that way be named among those who trust in Abba for life;

For there is only life in You Abba; You are My inheritance and My exceeding great reward; and the inheritance of all those trusting in You for life;

In Your life Abba, I find sweet rest; I am forever satisfied with Your life and Your loving-kindness is My delight;

I will declare and speak well of Your name Abba; for My sure testimony is able to persuade the hearts of Your beloved of Your life and salvation even in their darkest of hours;

Just as You have set Your life Abba, before Me, My joy; so also set My life before Your beloved by seating Me at Your right hand, where they will find the certainty of Your life and fullness of joy forevermore;

My heart is filled with gladness and confidence in Your good opinion of Me Abba, and all Your beloved; My flesh goes to rest with the confident expectation of Your life and immortality;

For You Abba, have testified and promised to Me that You will not leave Me in the grave; Nor allow Me, Your Holy One, to see corruption;

In Me Abba, You have testified to all people, the way unto life; giving them a confident expectation that You will not allow their lives to see death or destruction but have conquered death and all that seeks to destroy them, wherein their flesh can also rest in the hope of the same incorruptible life they see in Me; in immortal flesh and bone;

Abba You have shown Me the path to Your life; that all may know it in Me; and stand before You in immortal flesh and bone, in innocence and love where there is fullness of joy and at Your right hand, being served by Your loving-kindness forevermore.

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