After Calvary, it will all be clear. But Peter is still adamant, ‘Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Obedience is more important. That will do for a motto for all the Christian life. Obedience is better than anything else, obedience is better than worship, important as worship is. Obedience is better than service. Some people get it the wrong way round. What are you saying we cannot do this in our worship? We cannot have big bands and all the rest of it. We cannot borrow from the world. We are serving the Lord. Obedience should rule service. Peter was disobeying the Lord.
It teaches us this also – you have to obey some things you do not understand yet. When you are first saved, somebody says one of God’s rules is to keep the Lord’s Day. I do not understand that, you may respond, at first. It does not matter, you have got to obey, because the Lord commands you and you are his now, you are a child of God. Maybe after a few weeks, months, years, you may understand the importance of the Lord’s Day, but your obedience does not wait for your understanding. If the Lord says it, you do it.