Year 4, Day 81: Exodus 32

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Discipleship Focus: Identity

• 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.

In Exodus 32 we see a huge roadblock to identity: human impatience.  The Hebrew people are waiting at the bottom of the mountain.  They get impatient with what Moses is doing up on the mountain.  So they come to Aaron and ask for a new identity.  They want to become the people of the Golden Calf.

How do we know that this passage revolves around the topic of identity?  When our identity comes from the Father, we end up happily in obedience living a satisfied life in God.  But these Hebrew people do not end up in obedience.  They end up in gross violation.  They end up in sin.  They end up breaking the very first commandment that God had just given to Moses!

Their disobedience ends up in judgment.  It ends in destruction.  It ends in death.  It ends in plague.  When our identity is not from the Lord, we can expect things to turn out for the worst, not for the best.  When our identity is not found in the Lord, life becomes rather tough.

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