A friend told me 'how can two human beings understand each other? When even all their vocabs have a slight differences in meaning'.

And on relating with others, motivation and content of words are not the only thing important. Wisdom too is important. Wisdom to say at the right time. You can have good motivation and select the words carefully, but impatience might also be destructive.

There are 2 problems with human mind. First, it is bent. Second, it is limited. Education seeks to satisfy the latter but not the former. To have a renewed mind, it is the work of the Holy Spirit. If you want your spill over actions to be good, renew the mind. We can take part in renewing the mind by reading Bible saturated expositions. To renew the mind, we must first see how glorious is God. We see the glory of God by thinking His infinitely wise Word throught and through, by meditating about His Word. Through seeing and caught by the beauty, we came to faith. Through faith, our mind is renewed. (summarized from John Piper's sermon heard today)

"An unjust law is no law at all", says Agustine (quoted from The Great Debators). Civil disobedience started from Exodus 1. We can submit to human as long as it is not contradictory with the law set by authorities ordained by God. "It is right to disobey what God has ordained in order to obey what God commands." (John Piper)

When disobeying authority, we can have lots of motivations. It can be that we like to rebel, but we should introspect ourselves that we obey it for God's glory sake. Sometimes we can, on the other hand, be reluctant, for example we are reluctant to not going for work during Sabbath day, as we think that it is quite a 'small' issue, and that we don't want to be hypocrites as we know there are greater sin that we commit and why are we seeking to glorify God in this one? Isnt it just because we are lazy and want to rebel to authorities if we disobey? But if we have a clear struggle, and we had search our own motivations, and really want to glorify God in this case, I think we should disobey to work during Sundays, even though we know there are many greater sins and we are sometimes not being consistent in glorifying God in other more major areas.

In short, abide to the law where there is no conflict with God's command, disobey it by the motivation of glorifying God when there is a conflict, while searching our own motivations through and through.