Year 5, Day 282: Psalm 145

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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.

Psalm 245 gives us another great perspective in the difference between Up and Evangelism.  Certainly this psalm can be used in an evangelistic context.  This psalm is a great psalm in telling how God has been active in the psalmist’s life.  But what makes this psalm a psalm of Up and not a psalm of evangelism it the intended recipient of the message.  This psalm is spoken in the 2^nd person.  The psalmist doesn’t say that God is awesome.  The psalmist says: you are awesome.  The psalmist is talking to God.  That makes this a worship psalm.  This is a psalm of Up.

If we look at this psalm, we get a non-stop list of ways in which God is active in the psalmist’s life.  He is gracious.  He is merciful.  He is good to all – not just those who love Him.  He upholds those who fall down.  He lifts up those who are beaten down.  He is near to us whenever we should call upon Him.

However, the psalmist expands this point of view.  Did you hear what the psalmist says in Psalm 145:4?  The psalmist declares that each generation to the next proclaims God’s praise.  The psalmist isn’t alone in worshipping God.  The psalmist is simply one man in a long chain of men who are giving praise to God.  Worship is passed on from one to the next.

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