Year 4, Day 160: Deuteronomy 9

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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.

I find the first half of Deuteronomy 9 very humbling.  Moses reminds the Hebrew people to remember that it is God’s righteousness that allows them to have the Promised Land.  The Hebrew people are stiff-necked.  They are rebellious.  They are grumblers.  They are complainers.  They are all around undeserving.  Yet because God is righteous, the Hebrew people get to be in the land.

Moses reminds the people of this fact because He knows them.  Once they get in the land, they will become full of themselves.  When God should be in their Up position, they will replace God with themselves.  They will consider themselves righteous.  They will lust after the desires of their own hearts.  It is shameful.

What is in your Up position?  What do you worship?  Who is really the cause of your success?  Who is really the one who deserves the credit in your life?  How often do you desire to take the credit yourself?

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