To have a master and to be mastered aren\u2019t the same thing. To have Jesus as a master means that there is someone who knows me better than I know myself, someone who is closer than a friend, who is able to satisfy the deepest longing of my heart. It\u2019s to belong to someone who gives me the secure sense that he has met and solved every perplexity and problem of my mind. To have Jesus as my master is all this and nothing less.<\/p>\n
To \u0431\u044b\u0442\u044c<\/em> mastered is different; it implies coercion or force. Jesus Christ never enforces obedience. At certain times, I wish he would, but he doesn\u2019t. At other times, I wish he\u2019d leave me alone, but he won\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u201cYe call me Master and Lord.\u201d<\/em> We call Jesus our Lord and Master, but is he? \u201cMaster\u201d and \u201cLord\u201d have little place in today\u2019s vocabulary. We prefer \u201cSavior,\u201d \u201cTeacher,\u201d and \u201cHealer.\u201d The only word to describe the experience of having Jesus as master is love, and many of us know very little about love as God reveals it. This is proved by the way we use the word obey<\/em>. We use it to mean the submission of a weaker person to a more powerful person. In the Bible, obedience is based on a relationship of equals: the relationship of the Father and the Son. Our Lord wasn\u2019t God\u2019s servant; he was God\u2019s Son. Jesus obeyed his Father because he loved him.<\/p>\n Our relationship to Jesus is to be the same as his relationship to the Father. If instead we think we are being mastered, it is proof that we have no master. To take this attitude toward Jesus is to be far from the relationship he wants. He wants us in a relationship in which he is easily and effortlessly Master, so much so that we aren\u2019t even conscious of it. All we know is that we love him, and that we are his to rule.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To have a master and to be mastered aren\u2019t the same thing. To have Jesus as a master means that there is someone who knows me better than I know myself, someone …<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2268,"template":"","collection":[],"class_list":["post-2697","modern-classic","type-modern-classic","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}