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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.
However,
notice the structure of the psalm. The
first set of verses begins with the king.
The psalmist praises the king and his character. The last set of verses ends with the
queen. The psalmist exhorts her to be
the bride and mother that her family will need.
But the middle verses – the verses that bind together the verses about
the king and queen – are about God. The
middle of this wedding psalm is focused on God.
That’s
really how it should be. God should be
the center of our life. That’s why we
place God in our Up position. He is the
focus of our worship. But if He is the
center of our life, then He should also be the center of every activity. Chief among these would be marriage! God should be the center of marriage. He should be that which binds and holds a man
together with His wife.
If God is
the center, then it will have meaning.
If God is not the center, then why do it? The same is true about a marriage. If God is at the center of the marriage and
the point of the marriage, then it will have meaning. But if God is not at the center of marriage,
then its meaning will always be transient and in question. The psalmist knows this idea. Even our marriages should call upon the
worship of God as He binds us together.
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