Following Orders
In the world today, we seldom respond to orders, let alone follow them. Most environments and relationships are softer and filled with encouragement, affirmation and direction. None of these ring with the authority of orders.
In an Army, orders are common. We even have major texts and firm guidelines we call Orders and Regulations. Certainly, these were not the invention of a post-modern leader. I’m not being critical of such. They are actually quite helpful and mostly clear, not really open to interpretation.
We are accustomed to following orders and not minimised at all in the process, because the orders are expected and understood as from authority.
If we look in the Word of God we will find what some in another generation would have called orders. We will always do well to follow orders from the Lord.
Mark 1:27
The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him.”
