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

Revealing Abba in Psalm 59

Deliver Me from My enemies O My Abba: defend Me from all that would rise up against Me;

Deliver Me from the schemes of those who are trusting in their works, who with violence try to preserve the life of their flesh;

For they are just waiting to ambush Me and take My life; powerful men in the flesh, they seek to kill me though I have done them no harm;

They are quick to shed My blood though they find no guilt in Me; Awake to save Me Abba, and behold;

It is You Abba; The Lord God My defender; the giver of life; who will deliver Me from the enemy; and My life from the grave; and will visit all people and all nations with Your justice: taking vengeance and having no pity on death and upon that which served them with the fruit of death;

They return at evening barking out threats and going about the city;

Insults pour out of their mouths; they mock Me with their lips; saying, who will save you now?
But You Abba; laugh, knowing how You will deliver Me and come and destroy the death that they are experiencing;

It is by strength of Your hand Abba that I will be delivered; for You are My defense;

You Abba are the God of everlasting kindness, You will not allow Me to see corruption; visiting thousands with Your goodness and truth; In Me shall they see Your desire upon the enemy, death;

You slay them not; but give them over to what is in their heart; that they might see and not forget what is causing them to suffer; O Abba My deliverer;

For in the corruption of their mouth and the cursing of their lips, they allow themselves to be taken with pride; bringing them to a fall;

Consume them in Your passion to give them Your life; consume them with Your Spirit; that they may not perish; but that all would know that Your wisdom Abba rules over all and is far above any in the earth;

And let them return at evening; give them up to murmuring and make noise all around the city.

Give them over to labor to have life by their own strength; and to looking to the world to find their food for life that they may see that it never satisfies;

But I will sing of Your strength Abba; I will tell of Your everlasting kindness; speaking an eternal word for all people and all nations; for You Abba are My defense and My refuge against the day when the death in the world tried to tell Me I lacked life;

In You O Abba, My strength; does My life and immortality at Your right hand proclaim to all people that You will also defend and preserve their life; O Abba, You are the God of everlasting kindness.

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