What I mean is, is there something I should be doing (now or in the future) which if I don’t will be a sin? Is there a specific call on my life to do a certain something or start a specific somewhere?
Know what I mean?
I remember singing, as a kid at school, “Obedience is the very best thing to show that you believe.” I think we’d even clap along while we sang it. I disagree, in part.
Obedience is great, but the best way to show you believe must be love, for if it is how all will know we are of Christ, by the way we love each other, then surely love would be the best way to show belief (or disbelief). But even love, if not done correctly cannot be the supreme way to show belief.
It’s the chasm between obligation and gratitude, which separates correct love/obedience and incorrect.
Obligation is this, “I love you because I have to.” Flattering, right?
Gratitude is this, “I love you because of who you are.”
The first is forced action the other is a welling up within another because of the worth of the one loved.
So, back to the beginning, what should I be doing, not from having to, but from getting to, which would be disobedience if I don’t do said thing?
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