{"id":2738,"date":"2023-11-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myutmostforprd.wpenginepowered.com\/modern-classic\/authority-and-independence\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:31:51","slug":"otoritas-dan-kemandirian","status":"publish","type":"modern-classic","link":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/klasik-modern\/otoritas-dan-kemandirian\/","title":{"rendered":"Wewenang dan Kemandirian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lord never insists on obedience. He tells us emphatically what we should do, but he never forces us to do it. Our reason for obeying him must be a oneness of spirit, not fear or coercion. When our Lord talked about discipleship, he prefaced it with an option, an \u201cif \u201d: \u201cIf any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me\u201d (Matthew 16:24 <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps\">kjv<\/span>). And, \u201cIf anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters\u2014yes, even their own life\u2014such a person cannot be my disciple\u201d (Luke 14:26). In these verses, our Lord isn\u2019t talking of eternal positions but of being of value to him here, in this order of things; that is why he sounds so stern. Never interpret these words apart from the one who spoke them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIf you love me, keep my commands.\u201d<\/em> Our Lord doesn\u2019t give us rules; he simply makes his standards clear. If my relationship to him is one of love, I\u2019ll do what he says without hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone else\u2014myself\u2014in competition with him. I have to give up my right to myself to become one with Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus Christ won\u2019t help me obey him; I have to obey him of my own free will. When I do obey, I fulfill my spiritual destiny. My personal life may be crowded with small, petty problems, things which seem entirely random and meaningless. But if I obey Jesus Christ in the midst of them, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I stand face-to-face with God, I discover that through my obedience, thousands were blessed. When God\u2019s redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates; his redemption pushes through me to other lives, because behind the act of obedience is the reality of the almighty God.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lord never insists on obedience. He tells us emphatically what we should do, but he never forces us to do it. Our reason for obeying him must be a oneness of &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2350,"template":"","collection":[38],"class_list":{"0":"post-2738","1":"modern-classic","2":"type-modern-classic","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"collection-obedience"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}