Year 3, Day 365: Revelation 22

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Discipleship Focus: Father, King

• Father: This is the pinnacle of the Covenant Triangle.  God is the Father.  He is the creator.  He is love.  Our relationship with the Father is rooted in His love for us.  we get our identity through Him.
• King: This is the pinnacle of the Kingdom Triangle.  When we look towards God’s position in the universe, we acknowledge that He is king.  Authority comes from Him.  Power comes through His authority.  He is looking for representatives for His kingdom.

Again in this chapter we get a sense of God’s identity-given nature of being our Father.  In the end, He will be the source of all healing.  We will see His face and His name will be upon our foreheads.  He gives us identity.  This is perhaps the most fundamental claim of the whole of the Bible.  We are made complete through God.  He gives us our identity.

As you might expect in the last chapter of our Bible, we also get a sense of the kingly nature of God.  The same section that speaks to God being the source of our identity also speaks of our ruling through Him.  Because He is the Father, our identity comes through Him and we can obey.  However, it doesn’t stop there.  Because God is the King, He seeks representatives.  He seeks people to embody Him to this world.  Through His kingship we have both authority and power to rule under Him.  As this passage says, those in Him will rule forever.

We are complete in God’s identity for us.  We can rule through His empowerment.  But it all starts with Him.  That is how it should be.

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