FATHER

Down through history God kept raising up saviors - deliverers to point the way to Jesus:

Abrahams.
Josephs.
Davids.
Daniels.
Jonahs.

Deliverers with great flaws and multiple issues and yet they kept taking the head off the enemy, reminding us there's One coming who will fully and finally crush the serpent's head.

Jesus.  The Father's Son.

And as His Son, He bore the identity of His Father.  Hebrews says Jesus was the exact representation of the Father.  Image Bearer.  You want to see the Father?  Look at the Son.  You've seen Me, you've seen the Father.

The Son received the identity and the inheritance of the Father.

And in a world of rebellion like we live in now where we've lost connection with the Father, how do you get your identity back?  You get adopted.

God sent His Son.  His Son always obeyed Him and He received all the blessing of the Father.  So now everyone who puts his faith in the Father through the Son has his identity restored.  He too becomes an image bearer of God - she too receives a Kingdom inheritance.

That's why the Bible says believers cry out:  "Abba."  (Father!)

"I'm on my own, with no identity and no inheritance."  (Father!)

We scream it.  (Father!)

"We need an identity.  We need an inheritance."  (Father!)

You can come into the family of God and have your identity restored.  You can have your inheritance reclaimed.

And be blessed.