Year 5, Day 207: Psalms 63-64

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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.

Today I am going to tackle these psalms in reverse order because I believe that they will make the most amount of sense that way.  Psalm 64 begins with the psalmist lifting a complaint to God.  When I think about the relationship that humanity has with God, I think that this is a very common dynamic.  Human beings tend to talk to God when things aren’t going well.  We tend to lift up our complaints to Him.  That’s why I’ve chosen to focus on God as Father.  We often treat our earthly fathers the same way.  When we have a complaint, we usually take it to the person that we think is powerful enough to help us do something about it as well as someone who will genuinely care about it.  That’s often a parent – especially a father.  That definitely describes God, too.

As we end the psalm, that’s actually where we see the psalmist return.  he’s lifted up his complaint, so he turns to focusing on the power of the Lord.  It is worth lifting complaints up to our Father because He can do something about it.  He can protect us.  He can thwart the plans of the enemy.  That’s part of what it means to be Father.  It’s part of why we are in relationship with Him.

This brings me back to Psalm 63.  This is a psalm that is almost entirely focused on praise.  We thirst for our Father.  Our Father is our sanctuary and He is steadfast.  His presence satisfies.  He watches over us in the middle of the night as a Father ought. 

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