Love Authority

"When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at his teachings, for he taught them as having authority, and not as their scribes." Matthew 7:28-29

After years of infusion of secular thought,and enlightenment thinking, most people consider themselves outside the realm of authority - for authority resides within themselves. This line of thinking will reveal itself eventually especially when it comes to conversations about God. The notion that there is a Divine Being who is in "essence" a Father, who has anything to do with their lives or that one would relinquish one's will to a Higher Authority is completely contrary to their very being.
The paradoxical truth is that when one grasps onto one's being and holds it within themselves they are the least free they could possibly be. For grasping onto the natural world is letting go of the supernatural life and the supernatural life is so much finer. In surrender to the Authority of the Supernatural, the Divine Being, we begin to make an entry into Higher Cause, a Higher Place, we are lifted from the ordinary to the extraordinary. That is what so tragic about being entrenched in secular thought - under the false notion of being free- to one's own authority, one's own beliefs, one's own set of rules and principles- one has closed the door to a greater truth, nay the Greatest Truth; Jesus Christ. This is exactly the "modus operandi" of the Evil One, to take what is true and to twist it and repackage it so as to believe what is false is true.
People in all walks of life each and everyday miss out on the opportunity of God's overwhelming love to bring them eternal life - to allow us to be participants at the Heavenly Feast. Not only should we believe His authority we should run to it. We should surrender all to His Will. In our obedience, we love God and in turn the preparations are being made for "eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,"

When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at his teachings, for he taught them as having authority, and not as their scribes."