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For some reason, the word obedience has a hard time in todays society. Most people, I should imagine, on hearing the word would be put off imedieatly whatever was being discussed. Obedience implies submission (another ‘dirty word’) which implies authority (just usinig the ‘a’ word today probably gives this post an 18 certificate) and as a result is something to be scoffed at by today’s postmoderistical outlook.

But what’s interesting for me is the central role obedience should play in our Christian lives. Last Wednesday I took the final installment in what seems like a marathon of Bible studies (which have lasted since last September) on the ‘Sermon on the Mount.’

Jesus really hit it home for me how much obedience should be a normal part of our Christian lives, if not a key part. And it got me thinking. Essentially sin is disobedience, that’s the problem! Essentially what seperated Jesus from every other human that’s lived was…obedience, he did, always, the will of the Father.

When Jesus says on the day of judgement, “Away from me I never knew you.” We should all be on the recieving end, becuase anyone who doesn’t obey the will of the Father, no matter what they say or do, is actually a reject.

If you’ve ever read the sermon on the mount hopefully you’ve realised that this obedience malarky is impossible for you or I. Jesus knew this and that’s why his first beattitude was “Blessed are the poor in spirit.”

Luckily, because of the Saviour Jesus was, we don’t get judged on that final day as to whether we are obedient or not because Christ was, more so than we could ever be. BUT, now we are saved, the Sermon becomes an example of obedience that the Spirit is working in us to achieve (it’s called sanctifictaion).

how do you measure spiritual growth? I’m going to venture it’s by obedience to the will of the one who sent Him.