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

Revealing Abba in Psalm 38

O Abba, let Us testify to man that You will not rebuke them in Your wrath; nor chasten them in displeasure.

For they have viewed Your judgments as against them; to come down harshly on them;

Let Us show them that Your passion to give them life; was never against them; to cause them any harm; rather that You might take vengeance on the death which is the thing which has brought harm to them; and in doing so, comforting them; and giving them Your life free from their labor;
For the way that says they must labor and toil to preserve their life has laid a burden on them too hard to bear;

Leaving them feeling beaten, bloodied and bruised; troubled and in mourning;

They are perishing and find no rest in their bodies; feeble, sore and broken; and groaning in their hearts;

Abba, their groaning for life has not been hid from Your eyes;

And because their hearts are occupied with how to give themselves life; their strength fails them; leaving them hopeless;

Their friends and neighbors have abandoned them and left them for dead;

Just like I came to My own people; yet they received Me not; when those who sought My life; laid snares for Me; speaking with false accusations; seeking ways to harm Me;

But I did not receive their falsehoods, nor did I open My mouth to justify or defend Myself;

For in You Abba, do I place My trust; O Abba, My God; You are the One who vindicates Me;
And in Me; do You testify Abba; that You will not allow the enemy to rejoice over Me: that all who behold Your faithfulness in Me, will have confidence in You, to protect and defend their life;

For when all sin and death came against Me; and I was feeling sorrowful unto death; You strengthened Me; and I declared that I would not trust in My own strength and ability; but in You Abba to care for My life;

That all may behold; in Me; how the corrupt wisdom of laboring to preserve their own life, only brings hardships and death; and rejoice seeing how I have triumphed over it; and have declared Your wisdom unto life and immortality;

The enemy, death, was like a strong man against all of Your beloved, Abba; and those lusting after life by their own ability; are multiplied against them; heaping hardships on them, too hard to bear;

Their corrupt wisdom is ever seeking to bring harm upon Your beloved;

O Abba, You are never far from Me; and You testify in Me; to all people; that you will never leave or forsake them; You will never relax Your hold upon them;

You make haste to help Me; O Abba; destroying all that is against Me; that in saving Me from death and decay; and seating Me at Your right hand; that all may behold in Me; Your life and immortality as their inheritance.

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