Year 4, Day 118: Numbers 2-3

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Discipleship Focus: Up

• 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.

What a great set of readings to ask who is at the center of our own lives!  Here in these chapters we are confronted with the Hebrew people forming camp around the tabernacle.  God is literally at the center of their life.  We hear about the Levites camping around the tabernacle in order to draw even more attention to God being the center of our life.  God makes His point clear.  Life starts with God.  He is the center of life, identity, and authority.

This is a great day to ask if that has remained true throughout the millennia that followed.  Is it true today?  Is it true in my life?  Is it true in your life?  Is God at the center of your life?

When God is the center of life, life takes a certain shape.  Life looks and feels like God.  When God is at the center of life, He is present and visible.  As we look back at the book of Numbers, we see evidence of God’s presence in the life of Moses, Aaron, Aaron’s offspring, the Levites, Joshua, and Caleb.  Life starts with God.  True life flows from God.

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