There are scriptures clearly tell us that God is other than us,He is holy,and we are not,take Exodus 33 v 20,God is speaking to Moses and He tells him that he cannot see His face and live, and in fact no one can see His face and live.Other scriptures bear this out,(John 1 v18/ 1 Timothy 6 v14 v 16/ 1 John 4 v 12).It is in Exodus 12 v that God spoke to Moses face to face, it was a unique degree of intimacy. Of course God does not have a body, He is Spirit John 4 v24,and so He communicates to us in ways we can relate to,but it is only as when we get to heaven,and we have our spiritual bodies ( 1 Corinthians 15 v44),will we be able see God fully. God is not like us He is holy, when Isaiah had a vision of God he was overwhelmed by His holiness he cried out ,' Woe is me....I am ruined! for I am a man of unclean lips... and my eyes have seen the King,the Lord Almighty' (Isaiah 6 v5). Yes like Isaiah we are right to be fearful of a holy God, so how can we know this fearful being personallly?. Well God had the answer ,Jesus would come and bring into being the means of dealing with sin that seperates us from God (Isaiah 59 v2 ),He accomplished this,through His death on the Cross,sin could be forgiven ,and we could know God in the most personal way, as a heavenly Father. That brings us to consider the word which our Saviour used,'Abba , it was an everyday word ,a homely family word(John Stott),like the word daddy,oh yes He is a personal loving and friendly God, But God must also be held in reverence we cannot be familiar with Him. Let not this detract from the fact that He is your loving heavenly Father.
'Abba Father,let me be, Yours and Yours alone,
May my will forever be ever more your own.
Nerver let my heart grow cold,never let me go,
Abba Father let me be Yours and Yours alone'
Words Dave Bilbrough.
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