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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 this chapter we come across the question of what moves us in
life. What are the things that we
value? Where do we derive our value in
life? Are we holy unto God or are we
seeking our own agenda? Do we desire
what the people of the world around us desire or do we take our agenda from the
Lord?
We who follow Jesus are always in this situation. Any one of us can find ourselves tempted by
the world. Any one of us can find
ourselves living in such a way as to feed our own passions rather than in
submission to God. It’s so easy to fall
into the trap of the world’s seduction.
Where does our identity as priests of the living God come
from? Are we truly about His will? Do we make ourselves unclean without any
thought? Does our identity come from the
Father so that we can pursue and be obedient to His will?
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