Autority-Responsibility.

An adult can acknowledge authority, which has some shortcomings. He can admit that parents are not perfect and still respect them. The father is not the strongest and best he has been in a long time, yet I respect him. He is someone whose opinion I take seriously, I have respect for. One has to go through a period of defiance into a period of being able to make decisions. These are all prerequisites for a spiritual life. God has called us to be co-workers with the living God. Even God cannot solve everything for us. God wants us to make choices, to choose. To go from good to better. But making choices is not easy. Many people are so indecisive that they end up like the donkey who had two haystacks in front of him and didn’t know which one to choose, and ended up starving to death. A person who cannot make up his mind will never accomplish anything. He does not risk the step of choice that one must take, even at the cost of making a mistake and having to correct it. A grown man must act. He cannot leave all decision-making to other people. It is related to this that I decide this way, and the other person decides differently. We learn to respect each other, that we are going a different way, yet all those ways can lead to God. What is important is how I go, how God leads me. It is not so much important how the whole nation goes. I must know what God wants from me. People often yield to the majority’s opinion, which manifests human immaturity. If all goes, so will I. I won’t. As adults, we are to live with the living God.