The Real Authority
Read Mark 1:14-28
Reflect
When I was a kid in the sixth grade and on into junior high school, I can remember always having a certain level of respect for my teachers and trying to follow, in general, what we were supposed to be doing in class at any given moment. At the same time, however, there was a level of comfort with the teacher doing the usual thing up at the front of the classroom, and so other things going on at the desk of the buddy next to me or of the person behind me would often serve to distract me from the task of learning what was at hand.
However, on those rare occasions when the principal came to visit our class and sat down at the back of the room, there was no longer any question in my mind about what might be going on at the desks of those around me. Instead, the words of the teacher at the front seemed to be magnified and even resound off the walls of the classroom. There also seemed to be this burning sensation on the back of my head, as I wondered if the eyes of the principal were currently focusing there. When it was the principal’s turn to speak, there was no thought of questioning whatever he said, and I assumed that we would all immediately comply with his directives.
Posted by Keith 
