Ten Commandments – A Creative Aside

Greetings Dear Reader,

We commemorate days.  We give them significance because of history, events, or family.  I love celebrating my Children’s birthdays.  Days are commemorated for political, social, and religious reasons.  Often the meaning of social and religious celebrations can be lost.

“In six days the LORD made heaven, earth, and the sea, along with everything in them. He didn't work on the seventh day. That's why the LORD blessed the day he stopped his work and set this day apart as holy.” (GW)

In giving the law God tells us why he wishes for a day to be set aside just for him.  It would be enough that God commanded it.  It would also be enough that we are to emulate God in our actions.

“Certainly in six days Jehovah fashioned the heavens, the land, the sea, and the whole of things in them.  Then he reposed from creating on the seventh day. Because of this Jehovah blessed the Day of Atonement and consecrated it.” (ATT)

It is evident that the reason for keeping this day sacred is because God has blessed it.  Of all the things that God commands here he spends the most time on this.  As with things that follow he could have just said to rest one day a week.  Instead he reasons with us.  In this I see that while all commands are to be obeyed, there is a measure of import to this one that is personal to God.

In this I must assure that I view this day as God views it.  I must follow out of love for God and, therefore, that importance.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."