I, the Lord,
am bound when ye do what I say; This
is one of the fundamental statements of my religion: that God is not an
authoritarian king who does whatever He wants and I bow down, the subservient, and
worship Him in the midst of betrayal. This would seem odd and perhaps blasphemous
to many, as if I were equal to God, when through the operation of this
external force called law, my actions control His actions. He is still greater
than me because He makes the laws, but He offers me an environment where we are
more equals than superior and inferior. This is the celestial pattern: this is
the process by which I become more like Him, by which I step up and He steps
down (willingly, according to His own word) and He is my God and I am His: we belong to one another. The road to this more perfect union, this
more even ground where the teacher is not better than the learner, is obedience
to the Law as the Lord has said it. Submission. No matter how difficult to
understand: who am I to defy God? And the road to
but when ye
do not what I say, ye have no promise. discrepancy between us and our Father (discrepancy and distance
that God would prefer to close) is disobedience.
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