Year 4, Day 79: Exodus 30

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Discipleship Focus: Up, Out

• Up: Up is the word we use for what we worship.  If we are following God’s will, God will occupy the Up position.  Our life, our identity, our mission, our family on mission is all derived from Up.  This is why God needs to be in our Up position.
• Out: This is the focus of our mission.  These are the people to whom God has called us to go.  These are the people into whom we are focused on attempting to speak God’s truth.

In Exodus 30 we hear much about the word holy.  God is holy.  The incense is holy.  The tabernacle and its implements are holy.  What we are hearing in this passage is that these things are separate from the world.  They are set apart from the world.  They are of God.  This is the Up dimension to our life.  When we are in the presence of God, it is a holy time.  God has called us to understand that we are separate from the world.

However, this doesn’t give us permission to separate ourselves from the world.  Jesus was absolutely holy, but yet He still spent time among the tax collectors and sinners.  He still walked among fallen human beings and even called them into discipleship!  This is our Out dimension.  Yes, we are holy unto God.  He has separated us from the world.  But He has still called us to go into the world and call the world into a holy relationship with Him.  Our holiness does not allow us to stay in Up and never do anything else.  Our holiness is completed when we go through our In and end up in Out drawing others into a holy relationship with God.

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