Dear Editor,
Obedience is one of the most difficult challenges in life. For all humans, obedience determines our success and quality of life, if we choose to do what is right. I myself was very ignorant of this fact, until I realized that if I were obedient to Christ, I could have been much more successful in life, with a better quality of life. When we study the Ten Commandments, we see laws that were made to protect us from doing wrong, and that we should obey. It states clearly “Thou shalt not” so when we do not obey consequences follow that can obstruct happiness and the quality of our life.
Let me give you an example: thou shalt not steal. It says clearly this is a wrongful act. But in today’s political correctness, they call stealing an unauthorized taking of something that is not yours. Another example that makes most people in the world guilty, is “Thou shalt not commit adultery” The breaking of this law has destroyed families, and has children being brought up in a house without love. Children are seeing father or mother being with some other person than their biological mother and father.
Most people are scared to admit it, but being afraid to confront the truth and correct it, makes the reality much worse. As humans we deny truth and live comfortable in sin, which is dangerous and then wrong becomes right. The last example I will give you is to lie. This sin is the most dangerous sin, because after a lie is established, it protects itself by continuing to tell more lies to defend the last lie. A lie was told to Eve in the Garden of Eden, then the disobedient act was given to stupid Adam, which establishes woman as man’s weakness.
And from henceforth we all are living in the world of a big mess, which only Jesus Christ can cure. Because we choose not to obey or be disobedient, we all are living sacrifices, which is the consequence of not being obedient to Christ. The counterfeit Church in today’s world does not preach obedience; they teach and preach to live comfortably in sin. That is why so many pastors are sleeping, whose church members and so many church members continue to live in sin, deceiving themselves, singing about a heaven they will never see or reach.
To be a true Christian, it is what you could obey by living it not by only saying it. You cannot be living in sin and still ask God to bless you. It just would not happen you have to turn away from it. The conclusion is, “Obedience is better than sacrifice”. I know the truth does hurt; it hurts me too because I accept truth, but the good news is that is how you change for the better. The key to be happy is to deny wrong and obey right.
This article may have stirred up anger in you that is because it reflects truth or reality in your life that is not good, then change it for the better. If you are living a nasty lifestyle, change to please Christ. But surely the choice to obey or not to obey will leave sacrifices of life-long consequences. It takes a real man and a real woman to do what is right; those people who are obedient to Christ are the treasures in His eyes. They respect His crucifixion, which establishes grace for those who chose to use it. Please remember that obedience is better than sacrifice.
The patriot Miguel Arrindell
