For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" (Romans 8:15)
The verb "cry" is the Greek word krazein, which is the same word used to describe Jesus' cry from the cross (Mk 15:39) and a woman's cry in childbirth (Rev. 12:2).
“The picture is not that of the believer resting quietly in his Father’s arms in childlike faith, but of the child who has tripped and fallen crying out in pain, ‘Daddy, Daddy’."*
How do you know you are adopted into God's family? It’s not that you feel peaceful and assured all the time. It’s that in time of need you look toward your heavenly Father.
*Sinclair Ferguson, The Christian Life, p. 100
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