OBEDIENT

OBEDIENT

Ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus, once said, "Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety." There are rules to every game in life, and playing by the winning rules will certainly assure one of success, and success in life is the only way to safety. Success does not mean the absence of failure, but succeeding through failure.

Obedience is a necessity for survival and growth, as going against the foundational principles of life may be disastrous. Being obedient does not also mean being subjected to everything that is thrown at you, it does not mean being docile, or too flexible to be played around by crude men only for their own benefits.

Prophet Samuel told King Saul in the twenty second verse of the fifteenth chapter of the first book of Samuel that, "... To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams”. Nothing replaces obedience, when you want to have something, you must give or do whatever it is required of you to get that thing, otherwise you get nothing.

If you do the right things, you get desired results, if you do the wrong things, you get unwanted results. The right thing is not determined by you, but by life, irrespective of what you think it is, if life and nature judges it wrong, you will get the kind of result that your actions yields. Let your actions not be determined by the gratification of today, but by the result of tomorrow, live your life the right way, be OBEDIENT.

(A➡️Z)14➕Z)

John Kamikun

Author, "366 days of wisdom".