Year 3, Day 357: Revelation 13

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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 we read through this chapter on the beasts of Revelation, we see something interesting.  The people of the earth see this first beast.  They marvel at it.  It occupies their attention.  They worship it.  For the people of Revelation 13, this first beast occupies their Up.

The beast blasphemes.  The beast makes war against God’s people.  The beast leads people astray.  Because the people have something in the Up besides God, they are cleanly led astray from God, righteousness, peace, grace, and mercy.

We must be careful what occupies our Up.  We must be careful what we worship.  We must be careful what we put in the center of our life.  If we are not careful, like the people of the earth we’ll find ourselves worshiping something that leads us away from God.

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