Article February 23, 1974 Issue

Try a Little Obedience

CASEY WADE WRIGHT

Obedience seems to be an extremely unpopular word these days. Even some who believe in God don't want to follow His laws. They want to do what they want. A young person may feel that the act of obedience to the Ten Commandments, let's say, takes away his freedom and forces him to conform to useless, archaic standards.

Are personal preferences really a safe guide to a happy life? Paul didn't think so. He said, "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"^{Rom. 6:16;}

When I was going to college a couple of years ago, I believed in God as divine Principle, the very source and cause of existence. But I found it hard to obey the standards of Principle. I'd been raised in Christian Science, but none of the explanations as to why I shouldn't drink alcohol or try a medical remedy seemed to make any sense. I found it equally hard to justify getting up on Sunday morning to attend church.

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