Character Check--The Maverick

Exodus 5:1-9, 7:10-14, 7:16-23, 8:1-15, 11:1-10, 12:29-33, 14:5-10, 14:27-28; Daniel 3:1-20, 3:23-28


We are walking in today:  Character Check--The Maverick
 
Witness maverick throughout the Bible:  an unothordox or independent person, independent in behavior or thought especially in resisting policies of a group to which they belong--non conformist, free spirit, original, eccentric, decenter, loose cannon, resist
Zechariah 3:1; Job 9:4; Eccelasties 4:12; Daniel 11:15; Luke 21:15; Acts 7:51; Romans 9:19, 13:2; Ephesians 4:18, 6:13; Hebrews 12:4; James 4:7









The person who is labeled a maverick are those who resist outer rules they relate to people and inner rules how they relate to Yahweh.  This resistance to all the rules we have a perfect example with pharoah when Moses comes to ask for the children of Israel to go three days journey to worship the God of the Hebrews.  Yet with every plague and display of power, his heart is hardened to not allow the people to leave even after Moses prays to lift the plague.  This refusal to honor the requests from others is another characteristic of the maverick.  Yet mavericks are great leaders, very convincing of those around them to get on board with their 'plan'.  Mavericks don't inquire about what they are being charged to do--they just won't do it.  They are not interested in further details because they have no intention of competing the task--it had not even crossed their mind that they would even lift a hand to begin.  They are very competitive and like to show that they can do it better than anyone else.  Unfortunately, mavericks only learn through pain.  That is how they learn--as we see with pharoah who allowed them to leave with the death of his first born son.  Once they were gone, he reversed himself and then pursued them to the Red Sea.  Mavericks don't stop until they drop, we see that pharoah and his army were all in pursuit even into the Red Sea--where they lost their lives.
Another example of the maverick is in the book of Daniel with the three Hebrew boys--Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah who did not question nor plead to the king why they will not follow the king's decree.  They were upfront with the king to let him know that they will not bow nor worship the statute or any one but He who is worthy, Yahweh alone.  Even while facing the fiery furnace they did not budge.  That is the maverick trait in full effect.  This unmovable, standing fast personality will not complete a list of things to do.  They are best directed, indirectly in things that they think are their idea.  These are two examples of the maverick--let us be unmovable and steadfast in the things of Yahweh!  That we will not turn back or turn around.  This type of stubbornness can be beneficial since they don't stop until they drop.  So keep going forward for the kingdom of Yahweh as we have in the book of Daniel.  To hear this again click here