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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
Today
we are reminded of a blast from the past.
Remember the end of the Genesis?
We met Joseph. Joseph was handed
over by his own brothers and sold into slavery.
Eventually he finds his way into Potiphar’s house. Potiphar’s wife hands Joseph over into
prison, where he meets a cup bearer and a baker. That eventually gets Joseph out of prison where
he is able to save his family from famine.
Joseph is obedient to God in spite of incredible circumstances rising up
against him.
Flash
forward through about 500 years of Egyptian bondage and wandering through the
wilderness. When the land in the
Promised Land is being allotted, Joseph’s sons are allotted land in the second
and third positions. Of course the first
position is Judah, out of whom the Messiah will come. Essentially, Joseph’s family gets their
allotment only after the family that will eventually produce the Messiah.
Joseph’s
obedience to the Lord is not forgotten.
When everything was going wrong, Joseph still got his identity from
God. When Joseph could have given up and
abandoned God, instead Joseph remained obedient. His obedience has him being remembered in the
inheritance. Truth be told, his
obedience is still being remembered to this day. His obedience should continue to inspire us
all.
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