The friend supposed that the child of so wise a man would be learning something very deep.

So he asked her, "What is your father teaching you ?" The little maid looked up into his face with her clear eyes and said, "Obedience." That is the one great lesson our Lord is teaching us.

He wants us to learn obedience.

If we obey him always we shall always be doing things for him.
We do things for Christ which we do through love to him.

Even obedience without love does not please him.