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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.
If you
haven’t studied the symbolism in the very way that the book of Lamentations is
written, please read my blog post from three years ago. I link to it above. There is some really neat symbolism as well
as evidence of some very skilled craftsmanship on the part of Jeremiah.
Looking
beyond the symbolism, let’s analyze the point of the first chapter. Lamentations 1 is about the people and their
response to the captivity. Allow me to
lift out some of the quotes that we find in this chapter.
- Lamentations 1:18 “The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled.”
- Lamentations 1:20 “My heart is wrung within me for I have been very rebellious.”
- Lamentations 1:22 “You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions.”
I don’t
know a single person who likes to be found doing something wrong. For those of us who try to be moral, it is
embarrassing. For those who don’t care
about morality, it is still frustrating to be caught. None of us enjoy having to face ourselves and
our actions when we are in the wrong.
However,
the reality is that we are all sinners.
We all transgress. We all make
mistakes. We all are guilty. This is our reality. What we need to ask ourselves is whether or
not we are obedient in our response to the moment when our sinfulness is
revealed. Are we obedient in the moment
of judgment or not?
The
obedient one is humble. The obedient one
accepts what they’ve done and the consequences that go with it. The obedient one knows that correction and
consequences help us fix our mistakes and allow us to not do them anymore. When God comes to us and punishes us because
of our sinfulness, we have two choices.
We can reject God and rebel even more.
Or we can humble ourselves in obedience and bring ourselves into His
will.
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