The Ten Commandments

To see the highest mountain of the world is impressive. To fly over a near endless ocean makes you feel small. To peer into the universe of billions of stars is dazzling. Yet, far more inspiring is it to see the glory of Him Who not only made these things out of nothing but also set all in motion according to His divine laws!

From our earliest childhood days, we resist someone else’s will when it counters ours. This internal attitude doesn’t change by getting older for we don’t like to be subject to the laws of God and men and neither can be.

No words can picture the beauty and joy Adam and Eve experienced in Paradise. But likewise, no words can describe the destruction caused by the rebellion of Adam and Eve against God. It has ruptured the core of our being and distorted every view of God and ourselves as well as of God’s law.

Jesus said, Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. This weighty statement of the Lord is an important key in our understanding of the intention as well as the beauty of God’s eternal law.

Since our fall, we have lost every ability in ourselves to obey the law of God. But not all people are seeing that reality. As a matter of fact, none of us see this reality until grace awakens. Only then we learn to see that we are all included in Paul’s statement, There is none righteous, no not one.

None are more blessed than those who are called saints of God. Saved by grace, kept by grace, guided by grace and finally transferred from the realm of grace to the realm of glory. Such in short is the definition of the Gospel of God’s grace.

Unforgettable and deeply moving was the scene at Mt. Sinai when God proclaimed His eternal Law to the people of Israel. Young and old, including all the leaders of Israel, stood trembling and drew back in holy awe. Never before and never since has God spoken like He did at Mt. Sinai.

And God spake all these words, saying … and then follows the Ten. No God is greater than the Creator of heaven and earth and no law is better than the Ten Commandments. Moses reminded the people of Israel of that when in his parting message he said, And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments, so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Every direction in life begins the same way. It always begins with one step or one choice. They may seem small and insignificant. Yet the result of the first step will not be known till we have reached the end of our journey.

Often God speaks in His Word about that He does things for His holy Name sake. That means He exalts the glory of His character or Being by His own doings or works. None has as much right to exalt His own Name as God.