A wise man once said, ‘the person who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.’ Hence, schooling is continuous, and learning is progressive. I have found out that many people have stopped learning the most important things about life and display their ignorance when it matters most.
I want to take my readers back today to school to learn a course we probably carried over and ensure we are Inspired to pass the course no matter what. This is one subject that even our Saviour had to learn and pass, but, I wonder why we would want to ‘skip’ that class and hope to please God as believers. This is what the writer of Hebrews revealed to us about the subject the Master himself had to ‘learn’ even though He was the Son of God.
Though He was a Son, yet LEARNT He ‘Obedience’ by the things which He suffered’ (Heb. 5 v 8).
Our Lord Jesus being the Son of God couldn’t skip the class on ‘Obedience’, in fact he learnt that subject in the school of life and ministry through the things He ‘Suffered’, yet, many of His followers and disciples want to skip the class on obedience and hope to get over to the next level in life. We conveniently forget that ‘obedience is better than sacrifice…’ I’m worried sick about the kind of believers we are churning out from the Church.
A few things happened in the last week or so about the closure of churches in the country to curb the spread of this deadly virus in our Land. By the way, it’s something happening in other countries as well, the WHO and medical experts (Christians inclusive) advised against social gatherings of more than 20 people if we could help it, yet some church leaders are crying wolf where there is none. To Obey simple instructions have become difficult because we ‘failed’ the class on obedience.
Let me share my thoughts on 4 areas of Obedience that God wants people to ‘learn’, even if we have to learn that Course through suffering and pain; it’s something we have to do like Jesus did in the scriptures above
4 AREAS TO LEARN OBEDIENCE
- CIVIL OBEDIENCE: I’m not sure if there is something like ‘civil obedience’ because what we all know is the philosophy of civil disobedience popularized by Mahatma Ghandi and his protege, Martin Luther King Jnr. The latter encourages peaceful protests on laws of the land that may be perceived as injurious to the rights of citizens. Those protests are right when the laws infringe on the rights of citizens but God admonishes us to ‘obey’ those in authority when they make laws to protect and keep us safe like the covid19 restriction of movements (Rom 13 v 1-4; Titus 3 v 1).
- SPIRITUAL OBEDIENCE: This is the part many preachers like to teach including myself, especially when it comes to areas around finances like ‘tithing and giving of offerings.’ Truly so, non payment of such is an act of wilful disobedience that must be discouraged and I would appeal to my readers to give towards the things of God and Charity as well. Paul said we should not have ‘relationships’ with people that don’t obey the gospel (2 Thess. 3 v 14)
- PARENTAL OBEDIENCE: We have a major challenge today in raising our children. The parents in the last few years in Africa are unfortunately releasing rebels into the society from homes. The Bible teaches home training and demands that children MUST obey their parents (Eph. 6 v 1; Col 3 v 20), because it’s the only commandment with a blessing.
- WORKPLACE OBEDIENCE: This is a tricky one on scriptures because they hadn’t abolished ‘slavery’ in the days of the Bible and the Apostles taught the believers to ‘obey’ their masters in all things as unto the Lord (Col. 3 v 22). I believe we can contextualize the same today as corporate obedience for believers.
Have you noticed that we don’t really struggle with the last one because we earn a living from there but challenge the Government when the laws are sometimes even beneficial to us? I know for a fact that, most pastors (including me) loathe disobedience in church but wonder why we teach the same to those in authority….it simply shows the NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL and learn obedience.
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