Several years ago I heard one of the girls from our church say that to her older sister.  I had never heard that line before and I must admit it really cracked me up!  How often have we less quietly responded in the same way to authority?  We love having authority and we love it when someone in authority acts on our behalf but authority that runs "cross-grain" to our own agenda...is another matter!  Authority is the way things get done in this world.  Somebody makes a decision to do something and often they have to tell somebody else to do something to get that thing done.  We face this all day at work, school and when we "play."  Do we realize that we are accountable for the use of our authority?  Do we realize that God is the one who has given us the "power" to make decisions and carry them out?  It has been said that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."  That is true to a certain extent but power is still better than anarchy.  Surely the misuse of "power" (i.e. authority) is poor stewardship of a wonderful gift.  It is easy to see the misuse of authority with Pilate in John 19:10 but we should be on the look out for our own abuses at home, in the office, in the shop and in the church.  Let us be faithful with little and trust the Lord for much.