Our Daily Bread 4 July  2024 Topic: Calling Our Heavenly Father 

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Calling Our Heavenly Father

Bible in a Year :

• Job 28-29
• Acts 13:1-25

By [the Spirit] we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Romans 8:15

Today’s Scripture & Insight :Romans 8:12-21

Minutes after US President Harry Truman announced the end of World War II, a phone rang in a small clapboard house in Grandview, Missouri. A ninety-two-year-old woman excused herself to take the call. Her guest heard her say, “Hello. . . . Yes, I’m all right. Yes, I’ve been listening to the radio. . . . Now you come and see me if you can. . . . Goodbye.” The elderly woman returned to her guest. “That was [my son] Harry. Harry’s a wonderful man. . . . I knew he’d call. He always calls me after something that happens is over.”

No matter how accomplished, no matter how old, we yearn to call our parents. To hear their affirming words, “Well done!” We may be wildly successful, but we’ll always be their son or daughter.

Sadly, not everyone has this kind of relationship with their earthly parents. But through Jesus, we all can have God as our Father. We who follow Christ are brought into the family of God, for “the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship” (Romans 8:15). We’re now “heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ” (v. 17). We don’t speak to God as a slave but now have the freedom to use the intimate name Jesus used in His hour of desperate need, “Abba, Father” (v. 15; see also Mark 14:36).

Do you have news? Do you have needs? Call the one who is your eternal home.

Reflect & Pray

What news or needs would you love to share with your earthly parents? What can you tell your heavenly Father? He’s listening.

Gracious Father, thank You for being the one to whom I can call on in prayer anytime.

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