Obedience, the conscription of duty and compliance to the prescriptions of another. It forms the very bedrock of the Christian life. The tragedy, though, is when obedience is valued for obedience's sake. This is to say that obedience is useless apart from the reverent ascension to authority that confers and informs any sense of obedience. In other words, one cannot be obedient apart from the One being honored by the other's obedience: e.g. God.
Because of all this, when we speak of Christian obedience we are, by nature, speaking most-directly about Christ Himself, who He is and why He is worthy of our obedient devotion. This is what we mean when we talk about obedience: it's not about us; it's about Him!
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