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
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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