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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.
Jeremiah
40 gives us a great perspective on why God is God. For 38 chapters the message that God gave
Jeremiah has been resolute. “Surrender
to the Babylonians and all will go well for you.” Chapter after chapter Jeremiah spoke those
words. Chapter after chapter the Hebrew
kings rejected Gods message in Jeremiah.
Now the Hebrews are captive and being dragged off into captivity.
How do we
see obedience in all of this? God
wins. But after God wins, Gedaliah is
appointed as governor over the people as a vassal king underneath
Nebuchadnezzar. But look at what
Gedaliah says. Gedaliah tells the people
to settle down, submit to Babylon, and work the land. Geadaliah advises the people to stop
resisting and accept their consequences.
The neat
thing is that the people actually listen to Gedaliah! Once Nebuchadnezzar drags away the rulers,
the people actually respond and listen.
They do accept their lot in life.
They do submit. They are obedient
to God’s will after all. God just had to
get the leaders out of the way.
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