A Christian is Under Authority

I had interesting argument with my boss. I really knew where I was wrong and I guess I just needed someone to tell me so - effectively to say enough is enough. Now this may sound arrogant, but the decision to acknowledge error, in my heart, and accept the need to change was mine. I hated the discussion. The person speaking to me was using the wrong language, the wrong tone, came across as remarkedly pert and I could very easily have pulled out and said I'm not interested. But there is one difference: I am under authority. Not human authority, but God's authority. I am in a position where I must bow my knee and I don't have the final say (not by force, but by my decision to become a follower of Christ). I thought about our conversation and realised the person talking to me wasn't under authority - their tone of voice and refusal to accept their own wrongs and unwillingness to accomodate me told a story of the independent life of a non-Christian. Incredibly, the concept of being submitted under an authority is highly frowned upon in today's modern secular teaching, but it results in better humans, who can more easily find their place, not because of what is rammed down their throats, but because they know they can never escape the real boss, that good actually does really win and bad doesn't really go unpunished.