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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.
Isaiah 5
is a very interesting passage. In this
passage we get a clear discussion of God’s loves. As God prepared to bring His love to the
world through His chosen people, He set a plan in motion. In the analogy, He chose a piece of land that
was capable. He built a wall around
it. He set up a tower to watch over it
all. He planted good seed. He gave it every provision for success that
He could possibly give.
In spite
of God’s love and preparation, the land only gave wild grapes. The land only gave small and unproductive
fruit. The land didn’t produce what it
had been expected to produce. It
underperformed. It was a
disappointment. It did not rise to God’s
challenge of becoming all that it could become.
This is a
great passage to consider challenge. How
often does God prepare life for us? Yet
how do we spent our life? Are we
developing people around us? Are we
engaging them with grace, love, and mercy as a reflection of what God does for
us? Or are we taking all of God’s
blessings and keeping them for ourselves and thinking of our own desires?
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