Year 4: Day 2: Genesis 2

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Discipleship Focus: Obedience

• Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity.  Our true identity comes only from Father.
• 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.

In the very beginning of Genesis 2 we have a focus upon the Sabbath.  People commonly think of the Sabbath as a day of doing nothing.  That’s not correct.  We see Jesus telling us that the Sabbath can encompass work, but it should be the Lord’s work.  There are six days that we can be about the work of the world.  The Sabbath is separate, holy.  It is the day we focus upon doing the work of the Lord.

This speaks to the issue of obedience.  In fact, the Sabbath is fundamentally an issue of obedience.  Do we believe that life is best lived when we focus upon the work of the Lord?  Are we willing to put aside our agendas even for a single day in order to live out our obedience to God?

Of course, this leads us back to the rest of Genesis 2.  Our obedience comes out of our identity.  Our identity comes out of the Father.  That fact is seldom clearer in the Bible than in this chapter.  Who is it that shapes us, forms us, breathes into us, and gives us purpose?  It is the Father.  Everything we are, our whole identity, comes from the Father.

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