Year 4, Day 82: Exodus 33

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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.

As we continue the story in Exodus 33, it is still a prime opportunity to speak about identity.  In this chapter we hear God tell Moses that he is to lead this rebellious people.  Moses is to remind the people that they are a stiff-necked people.  Moses is to be the mouthpiece of God.

However, Moses does a great job at knowing His identity.  He is not to become God.  He is not to judge them.  He is not take God’s complaints against the people as His own.  He is not to own God’s wrath upon the people.  Rather, Moses’ job is to convey God’s message so that the people can relate to God better.

Likewise, it is not Moses’ job to take the Hebrew people and their sin upon himself when he relates to God.  He is not capable of doing that.  Rather, He is merely the mediator between the people and God.

What a great reminder for us as Christians.  We cannot take God’s place in judgment over people.  Neither can we take the sins of the people upon ourselves as Christ did.  Rather, we are simply mediators.  We are mediators between God and mankind.  We cannot be God.  We cannot take away their sin.  But we can be a part of God coming to mankind so that relationship might be possible.

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