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Discipleship Focus: Father
- 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. When the Father is in our life, obedience becomes clear.
In the theological commentary from three years ago, I commented
that this chapter is incredibly high challenge in its message. The call is to elevate common life into the
holy rather than let the holy slip into the common. What we’re really talking about here is the
Father. Is my identity rooted in the
holiness of the Father? Is it the Father
to which my life rises? Or does
something else occupy the Up position?
It is easy to set a low bar when it comes to life. It is easy to allow the common to infiltrate
the holy until nothing is holy anymore.
But the Father does not call us to be common. The Father calls us to take the common and elevate
it into holiness. We need not abandon
the common. We need to recognize how God
has taken the common and made it holy.
In this sense, I am reminded of the conversation Jesus has with Peter on
top of Cornelius’ house in Acts 10.
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