If you’re playing a game for the first time, whether it is a board game,
a video game, or a school yard game, you start with the basics. You
need to know what the goal of the game is and what the rules are.
Otherwise, you can spend a lot of time and energy trying to win, but
never get anywhere close. In life – especially as a child of God – there
are some basics. God finishes off the Ten Commandments with some of
the most basic rules for life that have ever been given. But just
because they are simple and well-known doesn’t mean that God’s people
are following them. Today will be a ‘back-to-basics’ day for us, and
maybe it will help us get back on track spiritually by reminding us of
how we can make simple (although not easy) choices in following Jesus.