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Discipleship Focus: Character
- Character: Having the interior life that is necessary to support the work that God sets before a person. It is hearing from God and obeying. It is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.
I think this is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible. Here we see Moses working on his
character. We see God refining his
character.
Notice what happens. God
knows Moses is unprepared as of yet, but God uses Moses’ natural curiosity to
draw him in. Then Moses undergoes some
training.
The first thing that we see is reverence for God. Remember what we discovered yesterday? Moses had a good start on getting his
identity from God with respect to the sanctity of life. But now God brings Himself into the
view. God teaches Moses what reverence
looks like. He teaches Moses to take off
His shoes. He teaches Moses to respect
His name. He teaches Moses to hear his
voice and to listen to it.
This is the beginning of the building of character with
Moses. It doesn’t always start in this
dramatic fashion with a burning bush.
But it does almost always start with reverence of who His is. It also almost always starts with hearing
about God’s plan and learning how to begin to follow it.
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