The Commander's Commander - Part Five
This view of God enables them to embrace a wide variety of operations and people. And when you meet them, you wonder, "Well, why are they like that? What is the difference? How do they get this large view of God?" The answer is that they are people who have done what Joshua did. They have met God. God has told them to bow before Him, and they have done that. And then they have asked, "What message do you have for your servant?" And what they’re primarily interested in doing is carrying out that message in the world. That's the kind of people we need. We need leaders like that because what makes them leaders is that they are following the leader. Because they’re following Him, they lead us not to narrow views of God that revolve around one’s particular denomination. Instead they lead us to that great God who has revealed Himself in Jesus Christ and who will be the object of our learning, worship, and adoration throughout endless ages.
STUDY QUESTIONS
- Can you think of any examples from Scripture when the Israelites did put God in a box? How did they do it? What were the results?
- Putting God in such a box shows the sins of pride and presumption. What event coming up in the book of Joshua illustrated Israel’s pride?
- Pray and ask God to show you any ways in which you might unknowingly be enlisting God for your cause, rather than being a humble servant in his.
- It is easy at times to assume that God is most pleased with one’s particular church or denomination. Locate other gospel-preaching churches in your community, and pray for God to be at work in their midst.
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