The Larger Picture

For many years all I had to do was just agree with myself. That is a very simplistic thing to do isn't it? No one controlled me. I just wouldn't allow it. Churches and pastors said that they were allow by God to do it, but I watched as they turned their leaders down from controlling them. They scoffed at the idea of being controlled by another person, yet they would tell their membership something different. For me it was that they would not practice what they preached. My dad taught us against allowing clergy to control my brother and I. He told us to use our head and think before you leaped. So when a parish pastor try to bind me in compulsory confession, I smiled and kept going. I later found out the this particular person used it as a "I got something on you and you don't have anything on me" leveraging weapon. I was very thankful for my dad's teaching at that point.

In relationships I found out something that made me happy. I found I could submit to godly authority without submitting to so-called (human) godly authority. By submitting to the Spirit of God-that means falling in the duty of God you are not bound by (human) godly authority. I didn't have to do anything that was unrighteous acts. I could totally turn those things down and be in the will of God.