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

Revealing Abba in Psalm 22

Abba! You have heard the cry of men's hearts; saying;

"My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why do You seem so far from helping me, and from the groaning in my heart?

My God, I cry in the daytime, but You don’t seem to hear me; and in the night I am not silent."

But You O Abba have answered them, in Me, the Holy One of Israel; whom You dwell. In Me, You have healed their broken hearts and put a new song within them;

Our fathers trusted in You Abba and You always delivered them from bondage;

They cried unto You Abba and You heard their cry and You have shown Yourself trustworthy to always deliver them and never disappoint;

Man has said in his heart “I am but a worm and not a man; and disapproved by God; he will leave me for dead.”;

But I, the son of man am despised and rejected of men.
They all laugh at Me; wagging their heads at Me saying;

He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now; seeing He said He was His Son in whom He delighted;

You brought Me forth from the seed of a woman; with the full weight of the mortality and hope of all man;

From the womb I have been Your Son; Your beloved from My mother’s belly;

Abba be not far from Me; when trouble is near; there is only help found in You;

All the weight of the enemy has pressed in upon Me like a wild beast; they do surround Me in their full strength;

They open their mouths to tear Me apart like a wild beast;

My blood pours through My skin like water; I am stretched, and My bones are pulled out of joint; My heart burns like a furnace inside Me;

My strength is completely gone and My mouth is dry and My jaw locked. The distress and the shadow of death are upon Me;

All Your naysayers have surrounded Me like a pack of dogs; they have pierced My hands and My feet;
My bones separate from My body and stare back at Me. They part My garments among themselves,

Abba be not far from Me, O Abba, My strength; Deliver Me from the power of the enemy; death and the grave;

For I know You have heard Me and will deliver Me, into Your hands do I trust My life;

Let My testimony be the sure evidence of Your life and loving-kindness for all My brethren to behold; that will put a new hope within their hearts; that You will never leave nor forsake them;

That all will trust in You, Abba; through Me, the captain of their salvation;

For You Abba, have not despised or abhorred Me; the afflicted; and the forsaken of men; You have not hid Your face from Me but when I cried out “Abba” to You, You heard and delivered Me;

Let them behold My persuasion and My hope in You Abba as a testimony of their life and their hope; a gift to all who call upon your name in that same hope;

All those who do not boast in their own ability to have life, will behold Me as their food for life and will eat and be satisfied forever;
This will be for a testimony for the world and a remembrance for all people and nations; That His wisdom and kingdom reign and has dominion over all people and nations of the earth;

All those that will be prosperous on the earth will eat of Me; the bread of life; the only place where life is found;

Abba will serve You with His life forever; and show you kindness for the ages to come;

Abba, let Us declare, how in Me, You have destroyed death and all that sought to harm Your beloved and raised Me up to Your right hand, immortal; speaking an eternal word that can be born in their heart; a new creation and a new living hope.

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