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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.
I know I talked about obedience yesterday. But Judges 2 has such an incredibly similar
theme as Judges 1 that it cannot be helped.
The issue with the Hebrew people is their obedience. The angel of the Lord says as much in Judges
2:2. “You have not obeyed my voice.” The issue is obedience indeed! The Hebrew people are not obeying the
Lord. They are choosing to obey themselves
and their own agendas. So the Lord
chooses to not drive out the people before them.
The people mourn. They
grieve. But as soon as Joshua dies we
can see their true colors. Their
disobedience flares up once more. It’s
the same old story. So God sends in a
judge. The Hebrew people capitulate to
God so that they can be delivered. But
as the end of the chapter indicates, this is a cycle that happens again and
again. This is the cycle of the book of
Judges. Disobedience leads to
bondage. The people cry out in
bondage. God delivers them. They capitulate – put on a face of obedience –
while the one who delivered them is around.
Then they fall away into bondage of their sin and the cycle repeats.
The only way to stop that cycle is to change to whom our obedience
flows. We are obedient to our
identity. So if our identity leads us
into bondage, change our identity!
Instead of rebelling against God, we should embrace God and His ways. If we find ourselves in bondage, the only way
to not end up back there is to get our identity from God so that we can be
obedient to Him! The only way out of
bondage to our sinfulness is to change from where our identity comes!
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