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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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