“I want you to obey me.”
I dare you to say that next time you need something done.
“Obey you? What are
you getting at?”
Obedience has a bad rap in the realm of friendly
relationships. We wear kid gloves when we handle the ‘o’ word in adult relationships.
You were taught to obey parents, teachers, police and
trusted authority figures. It was something you were supposed to do even if it
didn’t make sense. Then you became an adult and shortened the list of whom you
would obey.
Our grandparents’ generation included that word in their
marriage vows when they pledged to love, honour and obey. Unfortunately many of
them struck out on all three pitches.
Obedience is a word we have relinquished to police, animal
training, and cult leaders. This word has been co-opted by tyrants and
thugs—Jim Jones and Kim Jong Il, Adolf Hitler and David Koresh. It’s a
manipulative word in the mouths of powerful egomaniacs.
Is it any wonder we twitch a little at Scriptures that tell
us to obey?
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