“אֲסַפְּרָה אֶל חֹק יְהֹוָה אָמַר אֵלַי בְּנִי אַתָּה אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ”

“I will tell of the decree; The Lord said to me, “You are My son; this day have I begotten you.”

Did anyone asked a prince: ‘Do you want to be one?’, is it up to him to accept the responsibilities this role brings along with it?
It seems that ‘free will’, is not exactly whatever you want to do or to be. Why are the Israelites are those who carry the Lord’s word on earth – because He said so, a decree!
King David sends us back to the Bible, the first time it appears is in the book of Exodus (4:22): “So said the Lord, “My firstborn son is Israel.”.

This verse, that comes in the middle of the chapter, is sort of an absolute-educational answer.
The big question the Psalmist asks is: ‘Why do the wicked have good lives, while many other righteous suffer?’
There are more than few answers to this question within the Pslams book, including what David stated already, that real happiness, stability, is achieved only to the righteous (we discussed it previously).

– Nevertheless, King David pauses and tells us: Some things are not a matter of ‘do I understand it or not’. Every question is a good question, everything is questionable, but, the reason will always stay beyond the answer. Why…Because He decided so.

Question: on other places in the Bible, we refer to the Lord in other ways: Husband, judge, master, even lover. Is there a meaning to it now, that we refer to Him as our father?

Answer: Yes, that is exactly the point. There are two main significant s in a Father-son relations than all the others.
1) As we mentioned, a son is not out of choice. Why Israel is privileged and obligated at the same time? Because they are ‘born’ that way.
2) This is an un-breakable relations. In marriage, the possibility of divorce always exist. A judge can be replaced. Slave can buy his freedom and a lover can even be turned to an enemy. A son is a son – will never change nor replaced.