Authority is largely invisible. I used to work in local government, in an office building, and as I walked around at work, authority was there, but it was intangible; invisible to senses, invisible to Science. Yet it was there. It was mostly manifested in how I was told to do my work, in how I was told what to do. It was invisible, but it was known. I very much knew I was working in a place where there was authority. Occasionally it came into how I behaved in events that took place; such as a phone call in which I was asked permission and my own response carried authority I found surprising, but it was real. Most of the time my mind simply superimposed that knowledge into my work, but other than that, there nothing visible in the work which said it was done under authority, within an office building of a local authority. Now in the world around us there is authority too, but Science does not detect it, nor does it inform us of it. Really we only know it because of rare events in history, and because there is this entity we call the Holy Spirit which informs some of us about it, and we tend, in our short life spans, to ‘get wind of it’. Yet that authority exists. It is there in the trees and stars, and the changing of tides, and cycles of day and night. It is the authority of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
