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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.
There are
many reasons in this first chapter of Ephesians to think about why God should
be the center of our worship and the center of our life. God blesses us. God chooses us when we don’t deserve it. He causes us to be holy and blameless. He adopted us. He gives us wisdom to see His mysteries.
But there
is more here. He gives us the Holy
Spirit. He gives us a guarantor of our
salvation. He gives us the ability to
know what it is like to live daily in the presence of our God before we truly
deserve it!
Yet there
is even more. When we look at the
community God creates around us we see even more reason to celebrate. Only God can bring human beings together and
have it end well. Only through our focus
upon Him can we put our own self-centeredness aside and look to help one
another and spread His glory throughout the world.
Whether
we think about God, how He interacts with us individually, or how He interacts
with us as a community there is plenty of reason to worship Him.
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