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Obedience Never so Hard
And obedience meant a choosing to obey. There was not simply the general choice to obey. But as the Father's plan grew in His consciousness bit by bit, He chose to obey at each advancing step. As He drew on nearer, step by step, to Gethsemane and Calvary, as there came in upon Him with terrible realness just what obedience meant, of pain and shame, He chose to obey. Herein lay the strange power of His obedience in defeating the evil one; He chose to obey. His obedience was the result of his calm repeated choice.
Obedience was the touchstone of all His human career. He lived that humble shut-away Nazareth life, with its daily round of carpenter shop, narrow home, intercourse with men who did not understand Him—He lived so because so the Father planned. And He obeyed. The feeding of the hungry five thousand, the raising of Jairus' daughter, and the raising of Lazarus, were not greater to Him than the Nazareth round. All came to Him in the pathway of obedience. The underlying principle was obedience.
Yet obedience was never made so hard. The tempter attended to that. Obedience never meant so much pain and shame. The tempter planted that path with thorns, and planted all the cruelty of a cross directly in its middle. And obedience was never so joyously given. Jesus made music by His obedience. Obedience is the rhythmic melody of a human will keeping tune with God's. No sweeter music is ever made.
Obedience took Jesus up the hill of the Cross. It drew from Him the life-blood that washed out the blot made by sin on the righteousness of God, and that redeemed us 'forever from its curse. He obeyed though His heart broke in doing it; and so He has broken our hearts with His unmatched love. Obedience! Obedience!! This was the one gripping purpose of His life. In this he ran exactly counter to the evil one whose dominant trait is his disobedience. In his obedience Jesus foiled and defeated the enemy at every turn till the climax of Calvary was reached.