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Discipleship Focus: Identity
- Identity: Our true identity comes from the Father. Only when our identity comes from God can we be obedient in ways that satisfy our person to our core.
Much of
what I have to say today is inspired by my blog post that I made three years
ago. You can follow the link at the top
if you would like to read it. I would
encourage you to do so.
Today we
get to watch God’s chosen people lose everything. The king’s sons are all slaughtered just
before the king’s eyes are put out. The
walls of Jerusalem are torn down. The
temple is ransacked and burned. The
impressive people – that is, anyone with a useful skill – is deported to
Babylon. Anything of any importance is
either destroyed or taken. God allows
this to happen to His chosen people because of their disobedience. We talked about that yesterday.
All of
this makes me wonder the same thought that I had three years ago. God lets go of everything that the Hebrew
people had gained over the last millennia (or 5 centuries if you only want to
count back as far as David). God lets
His temple get burned. God lets His
special city be broken. Is there any
clearer message to humanity that the stuff of the world isn’t nearly as
important to God as our relationship with Him?
God is willing to let all the stuff go away to give the people a chance
to return to Him spiritually.
So, am
I? Am I willing to give up the world for
a chance to know God and invite other to know Him, too? Is my identity rooted in God or in the stuff
around?
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