The Laws of God....
Reading the Old Testament without the Holy Spirit is just a difficult history book to read. Three of the books in the Pentateuch list the laws and regulations for living.
The Laws can be pretty burdensome without the application of the blood of Christ, but with it, the laws of God are very revealing.
Through the years as I've wanted to know more about God the Creator and Father I've earnestly asked for revelation or enlightenment of who he is. Yet what has happened time and again as I'm learning and trying to embrace the magnificent God of all gods and he has attempted to traffic through my life with his ways and laws I've discovered that there is way too much baggage, too much recycled beliefs and attitudes and too much junk stored away in the recesses of my mind and heart.
Recently this, the 10th commandment has uncovered more stuff about me and more grace about Him
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor".
Really? covet my neighbors wife and life overall? Really? I've got my own life!
free dictionary Covet:To feel strong or immoderate desire for (that which is another's)Oh! so desiring what somebody else has or someone else's life is what God commanded or warned us not to covet.
For years I've basically ignored this law along with some of the other 10 commandments. I have never really wanted what my neighbors have...usually. Then I uncovered in Gods word that neighbor meant another human being or peer?....Then I realized that the comparisons I do with my life compared to those I love and those I struggle with...thats coveting. Then I realized that maybe it starts with envying what another lady has...her good looks? her thin body, her nice skin, her incredible crafitness or her abilities...and hating what I have to live with in me.
Wow! as Gods spirit uncovered my heart with the his laws I realized that I had been coveting those things that started as simple desires...but when I my desires were put into the lives of other people I was jealous, and then angry...and then accusing God that I deserved those things....and somewhere along the way I got off Gods path and went into a wilderness full of thorns of envy and dry creeks of unfulfilled desire....Coveteousness is a dangerous dangerous spirit of darkness that can consume a person....and if not for the grace of God I would have perished....
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