Everyday Lutherans

If you love me, you would keep my commandments.  Jesus words to his disciples are words for us to know and understand today.  For they are part of our history and part of what makes us Christians even today.  For in many regards, they still define who we are and what is so very important to us.   Several thousand years ago, God gave to Moses the stone tablets. Upon those tablets, God wrote the Ten Commandments.  These commandments would be given to the Hebrew people after leaving the land of Egypt.  The purpose of the commandments was a gift of love, to show and remind people that God is a part of their life. Yet, there is a need for others and need for community to care and help one another. Commandments 1-3 deal with your relationship with God Commandments 4-10 deal with your relationship with others.   Having these good relationships in your life is so very important.  It reminds you not worry about the little things but focus on the bigger pic...

The Hebrew people were living in a life in which things were decided for them, their work, home, food and much was all dictated to them. The Ten Commandments were given to the people to help them with order within their life, how they should be an individual within a community and understand good and healthy relationships. Good relationships between God and you along with you and those around you. The people would need these in order to function and operate, make good decisions and ensure that God was important within their life. 
These Ten Commandments are something that can with stand the test of time. They are lessons can impact our daily life. Here is my attempt: First Commandment Honor God and what God has done for you Why is this important? God is the one who created you and sustains you. God has helped you become the person that you are today, getting through the struggles, giving you the good things, and reminding you that tomorrow is secure and taken care of. We fear God bec...

This is one of those commandments that is easy to see on a paper (or stone tablet) but it is even harder to actually understand and put it into practice.  For this is the beginning of the commandments' portion that is often considered to be relating to Earthly relationships.  The mother and father are the two people with whom a child first encounters.  It is these two individuals who have been brought together, have created a child and now have the responsibility to care for this child until the child is able to care for itself. During the time that the Ten Commandments were given to the Hebrew people (they were not to the promised land and so were known as the Hebrews.)  the dominant system of order and structure was that of the family.  The eldest male would often control the other people who descended from him or from his siblings.  Along with the servants, slaves and wives of any other.  The elder would be considered to have wisdom from all their e...