THE TEN INSTRUCTIONS

Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

The Almighty God watches. As a wise judge He seats in His throne. He has set good and evil before us to test our character; to see what we will choose.

How does this Judge of humanity process our actions? How does he establish the good and the bad in our hearts? All our ways are before Him and he ponders all our goings. Are His criteria of judgment so complicated? Are there some big principles hidden from us that will surprise us the end? I do not believe so.

God is not a trickster. He has established His words from the beginning. He has fully and openly given us His contract in the Ten Commandments at Mt Sinai. He said that we please Him by the following of them wholeheartedly. Jesus even told us that these commandments hang on the principles of love. But this great Judge of humanity sees right inside our heart. He knows when we obey not with a full heart. He knows the hypocrisy that so often temps us to do the motions, to worship with our lips, when our heart is far away from Him. Could we ever trick God, or bribe Him with fake obedience?

God has only given us ten basic commandments; yet these ten simple instructions are the most viciously attacked principles in modern society.

1: To totally give ourselves to one God is seen as narrow-minded.
2: We fashion God and our religion according to our own liking.
3: Pseudo-shepherds use the name of God to teach their own theology.
4: We profane the Sabbath and even changed its day.
5: Children find it to be a burden to care for their old parents.
6: Punishment for manslaughter is relative.
7:Adultery is widespread through the practice of sequential polygamy.
8: Banks and merchants steal and call it ‘good business’.
9: Lying about others is so common practice that people must swear to be believed.
10: Covetousness is the driving force of capitalist economy.

By these my friend, by the wholehearted true obedience to the ten instructions given to the Church in Sinai God judges our hearts. God’s Word is written in Heaven. He has established it even above His own name. He wrote them on stone with His finger, and now, He wants to write them on our hearts. Can He? Will we allow Him, or are we so full of our own ways?