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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.
Ezekiel 20
is a really neat chapter to bring out the idea of obedience. God takes us through a long journey of
remembrance. The people cried to Him
when they were in Egypt. God brought
them out. They rebelled. God gave them all they needed to live in the
wilderness. They rebelled. God brought them into the Promised Land. They rebelled. God gave them spiritual leaders. They rebelled and wanted a human king over
them. They rebelled with foreign
gods. They rebelled with many wives. Their rebellion grew and knew no end.
The people
weren’t interested in living according to God’s statutes. They wanted to live according to their own
desires. They wanted all the privileges
of being God’s people minus any of the obedience and responsibility.
Here’s the
neat part. God doesn’t forsake
them. He does punish them. He does judge them. But in punishing them He is also purifying
them once more. God doesn’t walk away from
us when we opt to not be obedient. Instead,
God gives us the opportunity to refine us so that we can walk more closely with
Him.
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