Year 4, Day 14: Genesis 15

Theological Commentary: Click Here 

Discipleship Focus: Father, Identity

• 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.
• 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.

As you might expect in the chapter where we see God give the first covenant to Abraham, we’re going to talk today about the covenant triangle.  If you haven’t already done so, click on the link above to the theological commentary and read the last section in that post regarding covenants in the ancient world.  What I say that follows will assume you have access to that knowledge.

What I love about God’s covenants is that He is the only being who makes a covenant in which He assumes that He is the only one doing all the necessary work.  God makes the verbal promise, Abraham receives it.  God passes through the cut up animals, Abraham receives God’s figurative oath coming through that act.  God does all the work!

The same is true in our life as well.  We have the opportunity to come to God and become praus – that is, fully submitted – to Him.  It is then that we discover His identity for us.  It is then that we discover His desire for our life.  It is then that we discover relationship with Him.  It is then that we discover just how much He has indeed already done for us.  We simply need to follow.  We simply need to embrace what He is already at work doing within us and through us. 

It all starts with the Father.  He brings salvation to us.  He brings forgiveness to us.  He gives us identity.  He tells us who we are and who we can be.

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