Wednesday, 10/29/14
In today’s passage
from his Letter to the Ephesians Paul wrote about being obedient, and he
reduced all obedience to obeying God. Like, he doesn’t just tell children to
obey their parents, he tells them to obey “in
the Lord.” And he tells slaves or servants to obey “as to Christ.”
That ties in with
what Paul wrote in Chapter Thirteen of his Letter to the Romans, “there is no authority except from God. Who
ever resists authority opposes what God has appointed.”
That is in line with
the second chapter of the Bible where the first thing God said about his first
human was that it wasn’t good for him to be alone. We are social animals, each
with his or her outlook on things. The only way we can work together is that we
have one person with the final say.
While the Fourth
Commandment tells us only to honor our parents, it is always taken to be
shorthand for telling us to obey all authority.
In giving us that
commandment God knew that some parents and persons in authority would be far
from perfect. Still he was telling us that for good order we needed to obey
them.
Our government
leaders and our church leaders are far from perfect, but for good order we must
obey them “In the Lord.”
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