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Discipleship Focus: Identity
- Identity: Our true identity comes from God. Only when our identity comes from God can we be obedient in ways that satisfy our person to our core.
Okay, I’ll
admit it. It is fairly difficult to look
into this chapter and pull out a discipleship focus. After all, this chapter is doom and gloom and
wrath and judgment.
However,
if we look at those around whom the judgments of this chapter revolve, we see
that the primary characteristic of these people is that they are not obedient
to God. They have not submitted to
God. They do not have the seal of God
upon their foreheads. Their identity is
not “God’s people.”
What is
sad about this chapter is that even after the judgments the people who are left
still do not repent. Even after seeing
the power and the omniscience of God they do not repent.
There is
the lesson for discipleship in this chapter.
When faced with a God who knows us better than ourselves, shouldn’t we
get our identity from Him? Shouldn’t we
submit to Him and become obedient to that identity rather than the identity we foolishly
make for ourselves?
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