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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
Obedience is a funny word.
It is easy to say. It is even
easy – at least with God – to acknowledge why obedience is important and
worthwhile. However, when we’re in the
moment obedience is nowhere near as easy as it first sounds. Obedience conflicts with our human free will
far more than I’d care to admit.
I think about these Hebrew people told to take the land. God tells them to drive everyone out of the
land. In giving the Hebrew people that
authority, He no doubt also gives them the power to do so. But we know what happens. They can’t.
They don’t. The people that they
don’t drive out slowly turn them away from God.
This results in the rebellion of the Hebrew people and their captivity
to Assyria and Babylon.
Obedience. The Hebrew
people were not obedient. They tried,
but in spite of God’s authority and power they could not be obedient. It is a reality that haunts them for the next
500 years.
I wonder what Christ’s church has been haunted by in the last 500
years because of a lack of obedience by the people who lived back then. I wonder what will haunt people 500 years
from now because of our lack of obedience today.
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