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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
There isn’t much in this chapter except the list of conquered
kings. We hear about the kings that
Moses defeated. We hear about the kings
that Joshua defeated. That’s just about
the sum of the chapter.
As I speak about in the theological commentary from three years
back, Moses is given a very interesting title in this chapter: the servant of
the Lord. I make the case that it is one
of the best titles that any of us could ever hope to possess. But I can’t help but wonder, what does it
take to arrive at such a title?
I think the answer is fairly obvious. In order to become a servant of the Lord, one
must be obedient. One’s identity must
come from the Lord. One must give up
chasing their own identity and instead chase the identity that God has given to
them. When we spend our life chasing God
and His ways instead of ourselves and our own ways – then we truly are a
servant of the Lord.
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