Year 6, Day 32: Isaiah 48

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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.

There are two places in this chapter of Isaiah that indicate a need for obedience.  The first is in the opening verses.  We are called by God.  He has even called us by name.  We’ve learned His name, too, although we profane it.  We claim to know Him, too, although our lips don’t always mean it as very important.  We say we walk with God, but we don’t always spend time actually walking in truth or righteousness.

The reality is that we fool ourselves an awful lot of the time.  We say one thing and do another.  We talk a great game but live up to a far less standard than we say.  Our problem is obedience.  We say we are focused on God, but when we get it wrong it’s because we are spending more time being obedient to our fleshly desires rather than being obedient to the God who created us.

God gives us the answer in the last portion of the passage.  He is the one who teaches us.  He is the one who can lead us through the desert in life and keep us from thirsting.  He leads us where we should go.  He is the one whose message we should proclaim.

Do you hear what God is saying here?  God is saying that He is the one in charge.  We should be obedient to Him.  The way to life is not in seeking our own desires but in submitting to Him.

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