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

Revealing Abba in Psalm 40

I waited patiently for You to rescue Me Abba, and You heard My cry and strengthened Me in the midst of My affliction;

You brought Me up out of the grave, from out of the deep, setting Me at your right hand in immortal flesh. So have you established the goings and the hope of your beloved;

And You have put a new song in My mouth; speaking an eternal word about Me and Your good view and opinion of man; many will behold My testimony and place their trust in You Abba;

You have spoken well of all men in Me; Abba; and by trusting only in Your ability to protect and defend My life; I gave no credence to the way of those trusting in the lies of self-preservation;

O Abba My God; many are Your wonderful works which You have done in Me, and Your thoughts and loving-kindness which You have always had toward man; they are too many to number;

Sacrifice and offering could never conquer man's death and satisfy Your hope and desire to give them your life and immortality; You opened My ears and revealed this to Me; burnt offering and sin offering You did not require of Me;

Then I saw it; and I said to You, behold, Abba, You have sent Me and I am come to do Your will; the entire writings of this book have been made flesh in Me, and are written of Me;

I delight to do Your will; O Abba; Your teaching and instruction of life is in My heart, and out of the abundance of My heart I declare it;

I have revealed Your heart to all people; Abba; how that You will save them from death, and come to Father their life, and I have not refrained My lips; O Abba; from declaring that You are the giver of life;

My testimony declares Your desire to redeem man from all sin and death and give them Your life; You have spoken a sure word in Me; revealing Your life and immortality in human flesh, seated at Your right hand;

O Abba, Your loving-kindness and Your truth have been revealed in Me; for all people;

Testifying; how You will not withhold Your tender mercies from them; O Abba let Your loving-kindness and Your truth influence My heart and the hearts of men to rest in You to protect and defend their life from destruction;

For when all sin and death circled around Me; and death desired to take hold of Me and tell Me I was not the Son; in My affliction, I cried; “Abba!” deliver Me;

And it pleased You Abba to deliver Me from the wound of death; putting to shame all that was against man and bringing it to nothing; so that the way that brought death in the earth would be barren;

Abba, let man rejoice in seeing that My testimony is their testimony; trusting in and seeking after You; that their joy might be full and complete; by beholding their inheritance in Me; clothed in glorified human flesh and bone at your right hand;

Behold, I am meek and lowly in heart: refusing to use My own ability to give Myself life; but rather I trusted in You Abba; to save and deliver Me from death, in the midst of My affliction;

Testify in Me, to all people; a sure word of confidence; that You will also save and deliver them in their affliction; O My Abba.

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