OBEDIENCE - A Faith decision
Obedience is the road to freedom -C.S. Lewis The dictionary definition of Obedience is "compliance with an order, law or submission to another's authority". By this definition, Obedience seems to be in direct conflict with self preservation and the American Dream to amass wealth and belongings for one's self. In our day to day lives, we pass homeless people on street corners, drive-by wounded animals to die on our highways forgetting about them and their agony seconds after we speed past them, and fail to acknowledge other people with a smile, look or response when they speak to us. We can become so focused on our own microcosm that we think we are being "obedient" to our own goals. In fact, we can never be "obedient" to ourselves or our own self interest. We must stretch beyond ourselves in order to exercise true obedience, and be free. True obedience can only occur when we suppress our own wants and needs to the wants and needs of