Spirit convicts us: Stars don’t argue. Trees don’t resist. They obey the authority of the name of Lord Jesus Christ. Why don’t we? Why debate church authority? Jesus too shows that he is obedient to the commands and teachings he tasks us with obeying. He, the living Jesus, is no hypocrite. He is our Lord appointed over us and given power over us by resurrection from the Father, yet he is still like us, human, having to practice what he preaches, learning obedience as we have to do. No reason for us to not simply accept his authority as the church authority. He has the Father’s fullest attention to his work and prayers. We need him.
