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Discipleship Focus: Character, Up
- Character: Having the interior life that is necessary to support the work that God sets before a person. It is hearing from God and obeying. It is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.
- 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.
The three major celebrations of the Jewish calendar are Passover,
Pentecost, and Booths. These
celebrations are designed to remind of about God’s character. Passover – both in the Jewish and Christian
sense – reminds us of all that God has done in the past to free us from sin and
the evil within this world. Pentecost –both
in the Jewish and Christian sense – reminds us of the new things that God is
bringing about and how much we can look forward to as God continues His work
through the present and into the future.
Booths – only in the Jewish sense as we don’t celebrate this in
Christianity – is a time to look back into our own life and see that God has
kept His word. These three festivals are
all about remembering God’s character.
It is about remembering that God does keep His word and He does provide
for all that we need.
Looking at God’s character should naturally bring us to a conversation
about Up. When you think about God’s
work in the past, do you not see a reason to worship Him and make sure that He
is at the origin of everything in your life?
As you look forward to the future and see all that God can possibly do
for you, is that not yet another reason to worship Him? At the end of your life, when you can look
back upon all that God did, is that not another time to worship God and realize
the importance of having Him at the center of your life?
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