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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.
I love
the opening challenge of this chapter.
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. I always ask, guard them from what? Guard them for what?
Each of
those questions are fruitful to pursue.
We guard our steps from many things.
If we aren’t careful, we can go to the house of the Lord to be
seen. We can go for
self-righteousness. We can go out of
obligation but not love. We can go out
of a need to be important. We can go to
have our way. We can go to build our own
legacy. There are many things that we
can guard ourselves from as we go to the house of the Lord.
However,
I think that the second question is the more profitable question. For what do we guard ourselves when we go to
the house of the Lord? That answer is
simple. We guard ourselves for God. We guard ourselves so that we are in a
position to truly worship Him. We guard
ourselves so that we are ready to worship and serve our Lord. We guard ourselves on the way to the house of
the Lord so that our Up can be what it needs to be.
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