Abba

"Help me Abba! Abba help!" came the cry of the two-year-olds whimper penetrating the thick library walls. Normally I would have been distracted, but something sounded familiar in the child's voice. It was reminiscent of my own. Instantly my mind shot backwards though time recalling the many times I have cried out "Abba, help" to my own heavenly Father.

These four letters which mean "Father" in Hebrew brought such deep insight to what a loving Father we have in heaven. Abba is not a far off God sitting on a throne, sending His secretary to answer our every beckoning call. Abba is near, Abba is talking in His loving Fatherly voice, He is laughing with us, picking us up when we fall, correcting us in righteousness, sitting comfortably in silence with us.

Many times as believers we suffer from spiritual homesickness. We miss Abba just as we missed our own parents at first separation. We needn't be heartsick for our Abba, He is right here with us even at this very moment. He is not impossibly far off, but unfathomably close at hand listening for our cry “Abba”