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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from our Father.
As we turn back to the book of Judges, we are reminded of real
life. When we last read in the Old
Testament, Joshua was completing the initial conquest. However, we know that God promised them more
if they would remain faithful to Him.
Unfortunately, we know how just about every story in Judges will
come at us. “The Hebrew people turned
away from the Lord.” Difficulty will
come against the Hebrew people. They
will cry out, and a judge will rise up and save them in battle. But what is the reason that the judges are necessary? The reason they are necessary is because the
people are not obedient to the Lord.
We see evidence of this is this opening chapter. Look at how many of the tribes simply do not
complete the conquest of their portion of the Promised Land! God promised that it would be completed if
the people would simply obey the Lord.
It doesn’t happen.
Of course, I do not have any right to complain, either. I’m not always obedient. I don’t conquer the sin in my life like I
should. I sometimes live outside of the
obedience of God myself. And quite often
there are consequences to my lack of obedience as we see in this chapter,
too. This will be an interesting read
through the judges as it will continue to reinforce our collective need for
obedience chapter after chapter.
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