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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.
In this chapter we hear about atoning for sins. We hear about unintentional sins of the leadership
as well as sin among the people. We hear
about our propensity towards human failings.
None of us can escape it.
This might not seem to be an ideal passage about which to talk
about Up. But in one sense it is the
ideal time to talk about Up. After all,
where would we be without God? Without
our life beginning with God, what would we be?
It is God who opens His arms to us in spite of our sinfulness. It is God who embraces us when we do not
deserve it.
As we hear about in the opening chapters of Leviticus, in order to
get to a place of worship we must begin in recognizing our sinfulness. This is why so many of our church services
begin in confession! When we start with
our sinfulness we grow an appreciation for the God who forgives us and who
desires to be in a relationship with us.
What better reason can there be to then draw closer to God!
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