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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 find obedience to be a striking picture in Esther 2. Esther is obedient to just about everyone
around her. She is obedient to her uncle
Mordecai. She is obedient to the
director of the harem and finds favor with him.
She finds success in her obedience.
Rather than demanding that her needs be met, she humbly works in obedience
to the people around her and God blesses her through it.
However, I actually find Mordecai’s story even more
inspiring. Here is a man who takes in an
orphaned relative. She then becomes
queen. How easy would it have been for
Mordecai to collect on what Esther owed him?
Mordecai could have sought his own advancement through Esther’s position
as queen.
But this isn’t what Mordecai does.
Mordecai continues in his life.
He celebrates Esther’s promotion, but he continue to live obediently to
God’s plan. While he is living
obediently to God’s plan, he uncovers a plot against the king. Because Mordecai and Esther are living humbly
before their God and the people around them, God can use them. Mordecai shows us that it isn’t about living
humbly so God will bless us. It is about
living humbly so we can be of service to God.
When we are humble, we can be a part of what God is doing in the world.
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