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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.
As I
looked to pick my focus for today, I had to give a bit of a chuckle. Only someone like me can take a beautiful
chapter of future promise as we have here in Isaiah 62 and turn it into a
chapter in which we discuss challenge.
So before I turn the chapter on its head, let’s stop for a moment and
enjoy the chapter for what it is. Let’s
hear the promise.
God will
give His people a new name. God will
watch over them. God will protect
them. The nations will see their glory. They will be a crown in the hand of the
Lord. Foreigners will not benefit from
their spoil. Salvation will come to the
people. What a great chapter of future
promise!
However,
let’s make sure that we don’t stay solely in the hope of the promise. This chapter is about a future time and a
future condition. But there is work to
be done. At the end of this chapter we
have the command of the Lord. Prepare
the people. Build up the highway. Make the nation ready. The future condition will come because God
will bring it. But as we look towards
the future, we understand that we are to be active in preparing the world
around us for that time. We are not to
sit by and passively absorb God’s blessing.
We are to actively receive God’s blessing and share with the people
around us so that they are also able to receive God’s blessing.
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