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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.
The
opening verses from Paul to Timothy in chapter 5 are about dealing with one
another. There is one consistent theme
through these pieces of advice. We are
to respond out of love. In fact, it goes
more deeply than that. We are to respond
out of familial love. We are to treat
our elders like mothers and fathers. We
are to treat those like us like brothers and sisters. We are to treat widows and orphans much like
extended family, including them in our activities whenever possible in order to
show support to them.
This
should make much sense to us who are Christian.
God is our Father, and God shows love to us. So if God is the Father of all of us, then we
are spiritual family. If we are
spiritual family, we should be treating each other as family. That means we should be looking to display
love to one another. We should be
watching out for each other in terms of protection and resources. We are to be family with one another because
God is our Father.
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