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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.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 are a powerful pair of verses. “What does the Lord your God
require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love
him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and
to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you
today for your good?” If there are any
better verses that speak to our identity as followers of God, I don’t know what
they are. There are other passages that
give a similar message, and those are also awesome identity passages.
Fear the Lord and walk in His ways. We are to hold God in such awe that we desire
to be like Him. We are to hold God in
such awe that we are to follow Him and abandon our own ways. We are to love Him because we should not be
in relationship with Him but yet we are.
We are to serve Him because He is great and His ways are
righteous. But we are to serve Him with
our heart. Our service is supposed to be
passionate. We are to serve Him with our
soul. Our service is supposed to be from
our identity.
And where does identity always lead? Obedience.
Thus, Moses tells the people to keep the commandments and the statutes
of the Lord. If our identity is truly
rooted in God, then we will follow His ways.
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