“The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”” Romans 8:15 (NIV)
It is when we believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior that we enter and become a part of the family of God. Today's verse describes how God brings about this change. So, who is it that brings a change in our lives when we believe in Jesus? It is the Holy Spirit. He comes to live in us and the result is that we become God's children. We are adopted into God's family by the coming of the Spirit and this relationship is very personal and a continuing one. Today, the Holy Spirit makes the relationship real. He is the one who helps us to call God our Father. We can call Him Father in a very personal way like a child calls his or her Daddy. This is the ministry of the spirit of adoption as our verse says and as we come to understand the true nature of God as revealed in the Bible we might be amazed that He not only allows us, but even encourages us to Call Him by that very personal name as we cry out to Him, “Abba” Father.
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