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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.
As we start out the story of Moses, we do have to spend a little
bit of time looking at his youth. As
with most people, when we look at the true story of their youth we’ll see flaws
in development. Moses is no different.
When Moses is a young man, he sees an Egyptian man beating a
Hebrew. Naturally, he knows his heritage
and cannot tolerate that the Hebrew man is being beaten. That’s a great instinct. It demonstrates that Moses has a value for
the sanctity of life. What a great quality
to find in a young adult!
However, Moses demonstrates here that while he may share some of
his values with God, he is not truly getting his identity from the Father
yet. Whereas God would approve of Moses’
value for the sanctity of life, God would not approve of Moses’ violent of
killing the Egyptian. If Moses were
getting his identity from God, he would have stopped the violence without
terminating the life of the Egyptian.
We can see the effects of this flaw. Not only does this act lead to the ire of the
Egyptians but also the ire of the Hebrew people. He is rejected by all. He has to flee his life and seek out a new
life in the wilderness. Fortunately God
is with him and willing to continue to work on his identity. Even when our identity has flaws and does not
always come from the Father, God does not abandon us!
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