Selective Obedience

There have been some responses to my last posts that necessitate this one.

Why do we choose what we want to believe? Why do we think that we can choose what to obey?

Does obedience depend on us?

My posts had nothing to do with disobeying the government. Yet many are treating it as such.

Let me bring another scriptural instruction.

The Bible says that a wife should submit to her husband as the church submits to Christ (IN EVERYTHING). Numbers 30 examines one aspect of that.

Yet many will look for qualifications and argue out many scenarios on the same.

Then I say that we should obey Christ in the context of the virus and people start shouting obey the government.

Is government really the issue? Do we support the government or are we scared that obeying Christ could be more costly?

Suppose Christ said you go to minister to a Covid patient on their death bed? Or you don’t think He would?

What between government protocols and His command would you obey?

Do you realize that His miracles normalize in such obedience?

By the way I am not giving any assurance of healing since obedience is no guarantee of the same. You might in the process of such ministry contract and even die from the infection and it won’t be disobedience. But you can’t expect any miracles outside that obedience.

I have trampled on serpents and scorpions in obedience. I have eaten and drunk dangerous things harmlessly in obedience. But I was not tempting the Lord. I was simply walking in obedience. It was His part to protect me. Simply saying I was not looking for serpents and poison. I was simply interacting with them as I obeyed Christ’s call.

Shadrack and his friends were not tempting fate. They were simply walking in obedience. Their profession was that even if God would not show up they still would not worship an idol. Incidentally they were defying a legally established government for those leaning in that direction. Daniel was also acting against a newly enacted constitution.

Only the issuer of the command determines the obedience of the subject. We really have no choice of what or how to obey.

We are shouting obey the government because we are scared of what obeying Christ entails. In fact we have at the back of our minds a faint idea of what it may entail. Or we are not ready to deal with obedience if it goes against the ruling powers.

Psalm 2 talks about governments in direct opposition to Christ. No human government really exists for the furtherance of the Gospel or even Christ’s eternal government. It is only that God has allowed them to exist for the same purpose. Revelation 17:17 is flush on Christ’s enemies performing god’s will. Why do we think worldly governments will willingly help us obey Christ?

The thrust of the posts is what those who know me for long will affirm; what is Christ’s order for this season? What is Christ commanding you to do now? What is your personal order? And what is His order for the people who are called by His name collectively? What is His order to the under-shepherds of His flock?

Perez Uzzah and the mighty men of God in Matthew 7 going to hell are not because of doing the wrong thing but following the wrong instructions and orders. They died for busying themselves with doing things instead of following the right orders. That is what I am afraid we may be doing in response to this virus.

One thing I am sure God is saying is that we should not fear this virus. The fear we are exhibiting is therefore not of God or a response to the fear of God. Could we therefore be rebelling against who we know God is?

WHAT ARE GOD’S ORDERS FOR THIS SEASON FOR US?