Monday, September 26, 2016

Year 6, Day 269: Zechariah 10

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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.

This is a very neat chapter through which we can study the concept of obedience.  This chapter starts with a reminder that everything comes from the Lord.  The spring rain comes because the Lord ordains it.  True wisdom comes solely from the Lord.  We know the redemption comes from the Lord.  Everything good comes from the Lord.

The question that we are left asking is that if everything good comes from the Lord, then why do we not obey Him?  This chapter takes that question and focuses it in even more deeply.  If everything good comes from the Lord, then why do even His leaders have such a difficult time obeying Him?

Do you hear the critique of the vast middle of this chapter?  The people have illegitimate leadership.  The religious leaders of the Hebrew people are not leading the people in the ways of the Lord.  They are like sheep without a shepherd.  Why do the leaders of the Hebrew people not act like spiritual leaders?  They lack obedience.  The want to lead; but they forget that to lead people in God’s ways often means to forsake the ways of the world and live an entirely different life.

Therefore, the Lord takes over.  He will lead His people. He will collect them.  Although He scattered them, He will bring them together.  We can best be led by the Lord and only the Lord.

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