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Discipleship Focus: Competency
- Competency: Being able to accomplish what one is called to do.
This is a great chapter to look at the lens of competency. The Philistines are certainly competent
people. They beat the Hebrew people in
battle. They managed to take the Ark of
the Covenant – the prized possession of the Hebrew people and their God. This is a statement to their competency with
respect to human matters.
However, with respect to spirituality they lack competency. God makes a demonstration in their
midst. First, God causes Dagon to fall
down. When they set Dagon back up the
next day, God causes Dagon to fall down so that his head and feet are broken
away from his body. God is telling the
Philistines that He is more powerful.
God is telling the Philistines that their god Dagon is incapable of
acting in his presence. God is actually
inviting them into a time to walk away from Dagon and embrace Him.
This is where their spiritual incompetence comes into view. Rather than change and follow a God who is
powerful enough to work in their lives, they send away God and stick with
Dagon. They reject that which would
require them to change just so that they can continue in what they know. Instead of being competent in searching to
truth in God, they find themselves only competent in searching out their own
selfish desires.
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