Your heavenly father. Matthew chapter 6 verse 26. God's people are doubly his children. They are his offspring by creation and they are his sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call him our father which art in heaven.

Father! Oh, what precious word is that! Here is authority. If I be a father, where is mine honor? If ye be sons, where is your obedience? Here is affection mingled with authority, an authority which does not provoke rebellion, an obedience demanded which is most cheerfully rendered, which would not be withheld even if it might.

The obedience which God's children yield to him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil but run in the way of his commands because it is your father's way. Yield your bodies as instruments of righteousness because righteousness is your father's will and his will should be the will of his child.

Father Here is a kingly attribute, so sweetly veiled in love, that the king's crown is forgotten in the king's face, and his scepter becomes not a rod of iron, but a silver scepter of mercy. The scepter indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of him who wields it.

Father, here is honor and love. How great is a father's love to his children. that which friendship cannot do and mere benevolence will not attempt a father's heart and hand must do for his sons they are his offspring he must bless them they are his children he must show himself strong in their defense if an earthly father watches over his children with such unceasing love and care how much more does our heavenly father

Abba Father He who can say this hath uttered better music than cherubim or seraphim can reach. There is heaven in the depth of that word. Father, there is all I can ask, all my necessities can demand, all my wishes can desire. I have all in all to all eternity. when I can say, Father.