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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
Numbers 8 is another great chapter through which we can look at
the lens of obedience. We know that
spirituality starts with the Father and flows into our identity. When we are living in our most contented
state, we are living obedient to that identity.
This is a great lens through which we can see the Levites. They were a special people brought close to
the Lord. But they weren’t brought close
to rule over the rest of the Hebrews.
They weren’t brought close to the Lord to sit in luxury and dominate. They were brought close to the Lord to work
for and serve the Lord.
In human culture, proximity to the highest authority in the land
typically translates into luxury. Kings
and queens have courts and dinners and servants and estates. Life according to the human lens is a life of
climbing into luxury. But not so with
God. Our God is a God of work. He worked in creation. His hand was at work in history and is at
work in us now. It should not surprise
us, therefore, to find out that proximity to God implies that we will be about
His work, too. We are not called into
proximity to God to live in luxury or be superior to those around us. We are called into proximity to God to be
obedient to the identity of disciple-making to which He has called us.
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