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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.
As I
blogged about yesterday, we get to end the psalms in praise. Again, why shouldn’t we? Is there anything better in the world than
God? Is there anything worthy in this
world to be the center of our attention than God?
These
psalms are different in focus than the psalm we had yesterday. Yesterday we had a wonderful scope in the
praise. All creation was invited to lift
up their praise to God. Today the focus
is far more limited. The last two psalms
focus us just on the human response to worship God.
However,
we still have some great breadth in the situations that are presented. We are to praise Him in the assembly of believers. That makes sense. But we are also to praise Him when we dance
and sing and play instruments. We are to
praise Him when we go out for war with our doubled-edged swords in our hands
(or whatever tools of war we develop).
We are to praise God when He lifts us up into an elevated position of
importance. We are even to praise Him
with our last breath. That’s a great way
to end the psalms!
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