Sad and glad. That is what I am as the commandments come to a close. I am sad because for the past ten weeks I have been meditating on these “ten words” – one per week. Each one had something to give me. Each one showed me how to love God or my neighbor. They […]
The Ninth and Tenth Commandments say, “You shall not covet.” But Covet has a mother and her name is Compare. This means that before one can covet, he must first compare. He must compare two things: what God has given him, and what God has given to another. All coveting begins with comparing. Even to […]
“God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet” (Ps. 47:5). I chose this verse of Psalm 47 for two reasons: today is the forty-seventh day of Easter, and we are still celebrating Christ’s Ascension into Heaven on the fortieth day. There are forty-nine Easter Days (seven sevens), and […]