Contemplative Bible Reading

Luke 6:46 (New Living Translation)

So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say?

In the New Testament, the term “Lord” means about what we think it means these days. My “lord” is someone that I recognize as my master, my teacher, the person above me whom I obey. That is the key: I obey my Lord.

Here Jesus is talking to a crowd. He tells them,

You call me the one whom you obey, but you don’t obey me.

Well, duh! I guess that is sort of a definition or illustration of a hypocrite. Not a good thing. Still, that is what those people were doing and, sadly to say, that is what too many of us do too much of the time.