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Discipleship Focus: Protection
- Protection: In the Lord’s Prayer, God demonstrates that we are to pray that we should be “delivered from evil.” We are to ask for God’s protection upon ourselves. It is also absolutely proper to pray for God’s protection over those around us as well.
In Exodus 28 we see that Aaron is getting a robe. One of the neat features of Aaron’s robe is
that upon it is inscribed all the names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Every time Aaron goes into the tabernacle he
carries a reminder with him of the people.
He bears a witness to God about who God’s people actually are.
I think this is really neat.
When Aaron goes into worship, He is remembering the people around
Him. This is not too different from us
remembering those around us in our prayers for protection. As Aaron held the Hebrew people before God,
so we too hold ourselves and others before God and ask for Him to watch over
our lives.
This is a great reminder to us all. God does not need us to hold others before
Him in order to remember them. But He
desires that we do so. He wants us to
remember His people and to uplift them in our daily worship of Him in His
presence.
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