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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 great chapter in which we can take a good hard look at
the concept of obedience. Of course, we
understand that this chapter is the fulfillment to the commands given to Moses
in Exodus. God gave Moses the Law and
told him to give it to the people; Moses did.
God gave Moses the instructions for the building of the tabernacle;
Moses oversaw its construction. God gave
Moses the ritual for consecrating the priestly line of Aaron; here we see that Moses
once more obeyed. God gives Moses his
identity. Moses lives out of that very
identity.
However, we can see this concept of obedience in another place in
this passage. Moses places blood on the
ear, the thumb, and the toe of the soon-to-be priests. I like to think that there is an order to
this. Blood is placed upon the ear to
indicate that we are to listen to God first.
Then, blood is placed on the thumb to indicate that we are to serve God
in obedience to the identity that He speaks into us. Then, blood is placed upon to toe to indicate
that we are to obediently follow wherever He tells us that we are to go.
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