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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.
“Go yell at
the hills, Ezekiel.”
Isn’t that a
really strange command? After all, what
did the hills do to God? How could the
hills deserve to hear about God’s wrath?
It isn’t the
hills that are bad. It is what the human
beings are doing in the hills. The
Hebrew people have adopted the Canaanite gods.
They’ve adopted the gods of the nations around them, too. They’ve even adopted the foreign gods of
nations that come to trade with them or who make political alliances with
them. Judah is absolutely full of people
who have created worship spaces to other gods in the mountains, the hills,
beside the rivers, etc.
God’s point
in this chapter is to focus on the places where idolatry has been
happening. What’s the main problem
here? The Hebrew people have something
in Up that isn’t God. It is truly that
simple. They were worshipping just about
anything other than the Father. Because
of that, they would find themselves in judgment.
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