There is a difficulty with obedience.
The difficulty is in the fact that you don't always like the order.
You don't always like what the authority says.
I mean, in this example, Abraham is a grown man.
He's 99 years old.
This is over half of his life.
It would be like if we're in our 50s or something like that,
and he's being told to get circumcised.
That's a little bit embarrassing for a grown man.
That's something where it's kind of like,
I really don't want to do this.
But you have to just realize that your authority
is not always going to tell you what you want to hear.
Sometimes they're going to have instructions,
and you're not going to like it.
You're not going to agree.
You're not going to like it.
But it is what it is.
I mean, if you have an authority, they tell you what to do.
According to God's word, we're meant to obey the authority
unless they're asking us to sin or do wrong.