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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
This is a fairly difficult chapter to look at with respect to
discipleship. The scope of this passage
is particularly narrow: the sacrificial law surrounding the uncleanliness of
women at childbirth. Perhaps you find
yourself asking the same question that I found myself asking today. What on earth does this have to do with
discipleship?
In the end, I found myself coming back to obedience. Think about this for just a second. God created us and told humanity to take
dominion over the earth. He commanded us
to be fruitful and multiply. Procreating
is a part of God’s plan. While I’m sure
some children are born purely out of passion and not necessarily love (rape,
lust, sex outside of marriage, etc) I’m also sure that a good number of
children are born through love as God intends (within the confines of two parents
who love one another). Having a child
does not necessarily imply that sin has occurred.
Yet, God still demanded a sacrifice. That’s where the obedience comes into
play. It is one thing to know we did
something wrong and have our conscience and the Holy Spirit tell us that we
need to repent in order to move beyond. But
it is another thing to obediently offer up a sacrifice to God simply because He
asks of it and no sin has occurred. Here
in Leviticus 12 we see that obedience is about doing the prescribed thing of
God simply because He tells us to do it.
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