I couldn’t help but think about something that happened a couple of Sundays ago because it illustrates so beautifully the fullness of the message of this part of the text. It was after Sunday service and Anthon and Jamie and his family and I went out for lunch - Yes, we were eating out on Sunday - and we had finished our meal and Anthon asked his youngest little fella, Noel, to put the garbage in the garbage pail for us. There wasn’t a moment’s hesitation. He made trip after trip to that garbage can. He obeyed. Not out of some lofty idea of gaining benefit but just because his dad had asked him. You know, I can still him now, as we handed him handful after handful of garbage and each time, he went to the can and dumped it in. Do you see the bigger picture here? Do you see what a little 3 year old boy is telling us?
Be Holy - as obedient children.