Calvin Miller on Obedience
I’ve been digesting small chunks of Calvin Miller’s The Table of Inwardness. This is a 1984 InterVarsity Press book, and on page 82 is the following:
The highest kind of oebedience does not come from always asking, “What will you have me do?” but in the moment -by-moment rehearsal of our love for Christ. My wife and I love each other, and as we live in the enjoyment of our relationship, we continually surrender our wills to each other. We do not continually ask, “What would you like me to do?” Because of our relationship, we know each other’s desires and we do all we can to meet them, often without the exchange of words.
St. Theresa said that the best prayer was the meeting of silences; when God’s silence envelops us, though no words pass, the presence itself communicates. It communicates the divine will and leaves our own desire empty and waiting for instruction.