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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.
When I
read through Psalm 143, what I hear is a man crying out for relationship with
God. We can see this by looking at the
many elements of the psalm, putting them together in a collective whole, and
then seeing where it all leads.
We begin in
a cry for help and a humble admission. I
believe that this is a great combination through which we can approach
God. It is good for us to understand our
need for God as we enter into relationship with Him. Furthermore, I think it just naturally makes
sense that we do this humbly. We cannot
stand righteously before God without His help.
As we go
into the middle of the psalm we begin to hear about the psalmist’s reflection
upon his relationship with God. The
psalmist thirsts for the presence of God.
The psalmist stretches out to God like a child reaching out for a
parent. The psalmist remembers the past
times in which God was present in his life.
The middle of this psalm is all about how much better life is with the
presence of God in its midst.
As we get
to the end of the psalm, we hear the familiar theme of protection. This is one of the things that God does
best. He saves us from the evil in this
world in a very literal sense. But He
also saves us from death in a very spiritual sense as well. Our Father is a great protector and preserver
of our life.
In the
end, when we put all of this together we get a well-rounded perspective on the
Father. He is the one we humbly cry to
help. He is the one who does deliver
protection to us. He is the one who
stands by us through thick and thin. He
is the one who celebrates with us and comforts us in our troubles. This is what it means to have a spiritual
Father.
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