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Discipleship
Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
In this chapter sit would be easy to talk about either identity or
obedience. Obviously our identity should
come from a holy God. We are called to imitate
His holiness as we gain our identity from Him.
But for me, the real question is whether we will actually do
it. That’s where the rubber meets the
road in my book. Are we going to keep
His statutes? Or are we going to keep
them when they are convenient? Or are we
going to keep them when they make sense to us?
Or are we going to keep them when we aren’t likely to get mocked by the
world?
It is difficult to get our identity from the Lord. It is even more difficult to be obedient to
that identity. Obedience is hard enough
because none of us likes to serve someone else.
But when we add to it that the world will not understand our obedience
it becomes even more difficult. We are
called to be a holy people. It is time
that we begin to live like it.
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