Like
obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in
ignorance
When I was taking a summer lab
course during college, one of the supervisors made a comment that has stuck with me all my
life. “I would rather be a responsible child than an irresponsible adult.” When I shared that with my mom, she was not
at all pleased with the idea. Given the
context, her son in college, apparently preparing for adulthood, spouting some
nonsense about staying a child...
I would like to think of an obedient
child as a responsible child. Such is
our relationship to our God. As Jesus
teaches us to open the Lord’s Prayer, “Our Father, who art in heaven…” The obedient child gives us two things to
think about. There is the child. Jesus is God’s Son, the firstborn of us all
as we are made children, no longer servants, of the Living God.
Then there is the word ‘obey’. We, freedom loving Americans, don’t take
kindly to that word. It was not welcome
in my wedding vows. But this is far
different. We are not battling the sin
of hierarchy. We are taking our
relationship to God seriously. To truly
do the work of Jesus, we must be as Jesus was, obedient to our Father in
heaven.
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