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Discipleship Focus: Authority, Power
- Authority: Our calling. This comes from God as king. Because He calls us as His representatives, He gives us authority to go and do His will.
- Power: This is the natural outcome when we truly get our authority from the king. When our authority is from God, we are equipped with His power to accomplish His will. We act on His behalf in a world that He desperately loves.
I could
easily do another blog post on God being the king. After all, how many of these verses have to
do with the awesomeness of God? How many
of these verses talk about how great God is and how much God does that we don’t
even think about?
However,
I’d like to go a step further than just focusing on God’s kingship. Once we understand that God is indeed King,
we can understand just how much of our life is actually under His control. He controls the movement of the animals. He controls the behavior of the
livestock. He controls the movement of
the stars and the rain that falls. He
controls everything.
This
means that if we want to have control over anything, we need to get it from
God. If God has all the control, then we
only get control from Him. If we want
power, it needs to come from Him because He is king. If we want authority, it must necessarily
originate from Him.
I believe
that this is one of God’s primary points in this chapter. Yes, He is putting Job in His place. But He is also reminding us that once we are
in our place, we are ready to receive from Him whatever authority and power He
decides to give to us.
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