{"id":434035,"date":"2024-07-19T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=434035"},"modified":"2024-07-19T01:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:22:02","slug":"authority-over-the-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/authority-over-the-believer\/","title":{"rendered":"Authority over the Believer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c97357c697429719e3956c21e8a5e3b7\"><strong>You call me \u201cTeacher\u201d and \u201cLord,\u201d and rightly so, for that is what I am. \u2014John 13:13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Lord never insists on having authority. He never says, \u201cYou must.\u201d He leaves us perfectly free. So free that we can spit in his face, as people did, so free that we can put him to death, as people did, and he will never say a word. But when his life has been created inside me by his redemption, I instantly recognize his right to absolute authority over me. It is a moral domination: \u201cYou are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power\u201d (Revelation 4:11).<br>Only the thing that is unworthy in me refuses to bow down to what is worthy. When I meet people who are more righteous than me, I must recognize their worthiness and obey what comes through them. If I don\u2019t, it reveals my own unworthiness. God educates us through people who are a little better than we are\u2014not intellectually better, but \u201cholily\u201d better. He does this until we come under the rule of the Lord himself. When we are under his rule, the attitude of our entire life is one of obedience to him.<br>The way I understand obedience reveals my growth in grace. We use the word obedience to mean the submission of an inferior to a superior. Our Lord used the word to describe a relationship of equals, that of a Son and a Father: \u201cI and the Father are one\u201d (John 10:30). Jesus obeyed his Father not because he had no choice in the matter but because he loved him. \u201cI love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me\u201d (14:31).<br>When we truly see our Lord, we cannot help but recognize his moral authority over us. We obey him instantly, eager to show our love for him: \u201cWhoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me\u201d (v. 21).<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You call me \u201cTeacher\u201d and \u201cLord,\u201d and rightly so, for that is what I am. \u2014John 13:13 Our Lord never insists on having authority. He never says, \u201cYou must.\u201d He leaves us perfectly free. So free that we can spit in his face, as people did, so free that we can put him to death, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}