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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.
What a
wonderful passage to look at this idea of challenge. Look at the position that Asa finds himself
as we open up God’s Word today. Asa
follows kings who were falling away from God.
It hasn’t been that long since David was king, but his family was
already moving away from God.
Asa has a
simple choice. Asa can define his family
by the human beings that raised him or he can define family by the God who
loves him. I don’t know how it is that
Asa learns about the faith, but I love that Asa rises up against his biological
family and pursues God. I give him all
the credit in the world for pursuing God over his biological family.
Look
deeply at the challenge that was before him.
Asa didn’t just have to believe in God.
Asa had to remove his mother from office. Asa had to pull down her images. Asa had to destroy public worship spaces –
even if he didn’t get them all. Asa didn’t
just choose God. Asa rose to the
challenge and did his best to bring Judah back to God. Asa responded to the challenge in a very good
way.
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