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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.
In the
next two chapters of 2 Chronicles, we see Solomon fulfilling the request of
David. Solomon sets out to build the
temple. As he does, we get the
impression of a very humble Solomon.
Solomon is merely completing the plans that David set in motion. He humbly acknowledges that there are more
skilled craftsmen in other nations and he asks for their help. Solomon acknowledges that even with all of
these things, who is he to build a temple for a God that not even the heavens can
contain?
It is
this last thought that has inspired me today.
The heavens cannot contain God.
Nothing can contain God. God is
all-knowing, all-powerful, and ever-present.
What are we next to such a being?
Yet, this
very being desires relationship. He
wants to know us. He doesn’t just want
to observe us. He certainly doesn’t want
to just judge us. He wants to know us
and be with us. He is our Father.
But there
is another element of Him being our Father that I want to discuss: love. Do you notice that we are told the place
where Solomon builds the temple? It
occurs at a place called Mt. Moriah.
There was another event that occurred at Mt. Moriah that was rather
significant. God once asked a man named
Abraham to bring His own Son to Mt. Moriah so that a sacrifice could happen
there. Now, at the same place several
hundred years later, Solomon builds a temple to God. In several more hundred years at the same
spot, God’s own Son named Jesus will be condemned to die. God’s love is humbling. His sacrificial nature is impressive. He is our Father because He is willing to
love us in all of His power, desire relationship with us, and send His Son for
our sake.
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