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Discipleship Focus: Father, Identity, Obedience
- 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 the Father. Only when our identity comes from God can we be obedient in ways that satisfy our person to our core.
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
Today I couldn’t help but think about the concept of
identity. As I read through the account
of the grumbling of the Hebrew people I can’t help but see myself among
them. God sets me up with a life of little
want. Yet how much do I still grumble? God gives me what I need, but is that really
the identity that I want? Do I really
want what God wants for me, or do I struggle making my own identity based on my
own hopes and dreams?
Or take all those people in the story who are running around not
following directions. Those people who
save some manna for the next day even though they are told not to do so. Or those people who go out to collect manna
on the seventh day when they are told to collect double on the prior day
because there wouldn’t be anything the next day. How am I any different from them? Am I obedient to the identity that God gives
me? Or am I really obedient to how I
think life should work?
I am grateful that I serve a forgiving God. I am grateful that I serve a God who is
primarily interested in relationship rather than perfection. If God wanted perfection from me, I’d have no
chance. But I can repent. I can return to God. I can mess up, listen, come back to Him, and know
that He will forgive. That’s the Father
desiring me to obediently live out the identity that He has chosen for me.
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