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Discipleship Focus: Challenge
- Challenge: God does not merely wish us to be in relationship with Him as we are. He challenges us to grow, stretch, and transform as we take on the mantle of being His representatives to this world.
Joshua
23 and the following chapter are full of challenge. Joshua is about to die. His work is complete. But notice something rather interesting in
this chapter. Joshua doesn’t focus upon
what’s about to happen to him. He doesn’t
bemoan his approaching death.
Rather,
Joshua knows that it is time to pass on the mantle of leadership to the
people. He can’t walk them through life
forever. They need to step up and do it
themselves. So Joshua begins into a
great farewell speech full of challenge.
Listen
to Joshua’s two main points of challenge, though. They’re not hard to hear in his words. If you obey God, He will fight for you. If you disobey God’s ways, don’t expect God
to fight for you at all. It’s really a
simple message, but it is such a message of high challenge.
Do
you have what it takes to be obedient to God?
When things in your life are crumbling, do you have what it takes to
admit where you have fallen away from God?
When things are going well for you, do you have what it takes to be
challenged into giving God the glory for His great work? He wants to transform our lives and change
the world around us through us. Are you
able to be challenged into relationship with Him so that He can work through
you?
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