In this little speech of mine I am going to answer the age old question;
“What is lordship?”
Okay, so it's not an “Age old question,” but it is still an interesting question to consider.
We have not had any lords since the Medieval ages, so it is sometimes hard to figure out what a lord is.
According to the dictionary, a lord is “A person having great power and authority.” In short it means: to rule over someone.
But I feel that lordship is something more. I feel that lord is someone who you respect and someone you want to please.
That's how I feel about my heavenly lord. I love and respect him and I want to please him.
However not all lords are good lords.
For instance, in the movie “A New Hope,” we are introduced to a character named Lord Vader. Lord Vader is a ruthless lord, and is hated by everyone, including himself at times. He feared rather than respected, and he kills both his enemies and his adversaries. The only reason anyone wants to please him is so he won't kill them.
No one wants a bad lord to rule over them, but our heavenly Lord is just and would never mistreat or ruthlessly kill us.
However, sometimes he asks us to do difficult things.
He asked a young maiden named Joan to lead the French army.
He asked a man named Noah to build a rather large boat known as an ark (Genesis 6:14).
Sometimes our heavenly Lord asks us to rebel against our earthly lord, as he did with a man named George Washington.
And sometimes we are forced to chose between an earthly lord we love and respect and our heavenly Lord.
For example, in a book called “The Old Testament,” we read about a girl named Esther. Esther happens to be married to her earthly lord, but she also loves her heavenly Lord. So when the king orders that she must not come before him without a summons, and God asks her to asks the king to save her people, she is unsure what to do for, as she says in Esther 4:11; “The king has not called for me to come to him in thirty days.”
Eventually Esther's love her heavenly Lord won out, as it should. For that, I believe, is what it means to be under a lordship. Obeying your Lord no matter what the cost.
So I end with a question. Are you prepared to die for your lord?
George Washington and Esther were, and Joan really did die for her Lord. But will You?
And you said you thought something was wrong with it! Well done, Jon. The Historical examples are great(although that last "Joan" should maybe have an "Of Arc" after it). The Esther story is a great touch; I would never have thought of it. I think you may be missing a word here, though: "He feared rather than respected." Also, the beginning could maybe be a bit stronger. The rest is great though.
ReplyDeleteyeah i didn't really like the beginning either
ReplyDeleteI liked this line a lot, "Sometimes our heavenly Lord asks us to rebel against our earthly lord," And the section after that, too. Well, the whole thing really, that just stuck out to me personally. :)
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning, maybe you could've added something like, 'how is lordship different from...' I dunno...deanship or something (not deanship, I can't think of anything), just to beef it up a bit.
There were like 2 typos that I noticed. But that's about it. Really great job, Jon. :)
By the way, Unknown is Laura. Hahaha....
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