The Sign of Ultimate Authority: Why the Risen Christ Demands Our Surrender
Have you ever had someone tell you what to do, and your immediate, knee-jerk reaction was, "Who do you think you are? W ho gave you the authority to tell me how to live?" Whether it is a boss rolling out a new workplace policy, a traffic officer pulling us over, or a friend offering unsolicited advice, our human nature naturally pushes back when our autonomy is challenged. Truth is we typically don't like it when we are corrected and often times we push back. When this defensive pushback enters our spiritual lives, it becomes dangerous . It can hinder our spiritual growth and cause us to become blind to some real spiritual issues. Ultimately the reason we push back in the first place is because we feel we don't have anything to correct. There is a word for this and that word is pride and we are all guilty of it to one degree or another. When we open the Scriptures and encounter commands that disrupt our lifes...
