The Four Commandments of God's Wisdom...

When we think about the kind blessedness of God we can’t but marvel at his wisdom. The ten commandments of God are monument to his wisdom and glory. When we look at the first four we focus on him and our to-do with him.
In the first, there shall be no other gods besides me, God focuses on what Jesus said to the Pharisees …”this people draw in to give praise with their lips but their hearts are far away from me, in vain they worship me teaching as
Doctrine the commandments of men.” This passage opens a window to explore that we are to worship God by what he says in his word and not what we make up, no matter how good, holy, or righteous it sounds.
The devil takes advantage of us in this area, since Paul states that the Devil transforms himself into an angel of light and his ministers in ‘good looking’ ministers of righteousness.
Some time people claim to have visions and dreams claiming that God has spoken to them in such vision and or dreams. Sometime you come along with the ‘feel good’ experience and forget totally about what God want to tell you that day.
In the second window we have the second commandment and that is you shall not have any graven image and worship it. This is a hard one for many, because some religion and thought syndromes teach to love and even idolize some.
This happens in the family and it’s the blue print for trouble. Some husbands love their wives or vice versa in way that is sinful, more than God. And it seem innocent enough to do that, love your children like there’s no tomorrow.
Love is not a sin, but who should we focus on, to be our very breath- has to be clearly God. In the catholic religion, the marriage is idolized along with the rest of their doctrines, but this blog or subject is not about them but us when we give
account. The soberness of the commandment delivers us from a lot of grief. This not about giving up on a marriage, but to be clearly understood who is the general manager of the universe, like we’ve read somewhere, God only.
Then we come to the third commandment which is to not take the Lord’s name in vain. But this is rampant in today religious circles that take the name and call themselves ‘Christian’ and live totally contrary to what their supposed Lord
Jesus teaches. The Devil tempts us constantly to accept behavior contrary to the walk of real Christian who is sincere in his devotion to the word of God. This mysterious religion or group of individuals have existed since the cradle of
Creation. Ever since the Babylonians came to be, they created a religion based on ritual and empty self styled worship, where the self is what is worshiped and it is very popular because everyone does have a self that craves adoration.
I have that problem myself and I have never met anyone who didn’t want to love himself a little more than others. But the Christian real religion calls for sacrifice and that’s not what the self want to do. It’s about me and my need, want and my
Desires, my fulfillment, my dreams. We don’t care for what old God cares about, to put it plainly. But then it’s about the show, to appear holy and righteous with the minimum expense to the ego. If we give we want something or better in
Return. But cultured ego does not want to become unseemly and we want to be holy, but we want to control the situation. Let’s put on our rules, our pastor our agenda and our terms, but totally empty of the holiness and righteous of God.
The last and fourth commandment is probably the most misunderstood and broken commandment of the four, if that is possible. The fourth commandment goes against the grain of everything.
Contrary to popular opinion it is not about which day you worship God, whether Saturday of Sunday, but about the understanding that it is God who has fore-known you and called you and sanctified you.
This fourth or last commandment for this segment is the very soul of the concept and the phenomenon of God grace for us. It has repercussions in our thought because, our church cannot make us holy, and tithing cannot make us holy, giving
Offerings cannot make us holy; the Pastor at church cannot wave a wand over you and make you holy. The fact is that it only the grace of God that has made us holy and we are sealed. We can never fall from our salvation because it is God who
Preserves it. The Sabbath is just a sign or a toke or amulet to remind us that God has done all the work of saving us through Jesus and we don’t have to fear anyone or anything pertaining to our salvation.
This helmet of our salvation is key target for the devil trying to persuade us to think that we have to do something to be holy or please God. But God has already done all the preparation and cooking of salvation for us feast on. May you be blessed. Amen.