Obedience is easy when
you're in passionate love. In fact, we don't even think of it as
“obedience.” We so want to please our lover that anything we even
get the inkling they would like we are totally ready to do. And more.
“Really? That's all you want? You can have more. I can do more.”
We try to invent ways to
please them, to surprise them with what we did, just to see them
smile. If what they want us to do is also actually good for us,
that's a bonus. We'd have done it anyway.
That's the way our
morality should be with God. If we obey his laws and follows his ways
from a place of intimacy, deep lover-passion, it's not burdensome,
which it's not anyway because his laws are good for us. Unless we're
deceived, then it can be burdensome.
But in the truth of his
intimacy, it's a delight. Pleasing him brings us closer to him, our
lover. And we're disappointed we can't do more, because we want to be
even closer to him.
It's not about “earning”
closeness to him, or doing good to get close. It's about doing good
because we are already so close. Out of love, not obligation. It's a
world of difference in perspective.
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