My plans to go to Michigan to see my mom and two of our three daughters has been disrupted.  Most flights for today are being wiped away.  So I’m riding out God’s plans until further notice.  Currently writing for Sunday as I watch the snow accumulate :).    

We have arrived at the end of our series on the Ten Commandments.  The journey as been a good one as we have explored the wisdom of God given in the form of gracious boundaries for our flourishing.  God is good.  Our Text of the Quarter from Psalm 19 says, “By them is your servant warned and in keeping them there is great reward.”  In giving us his Word (law included), God’s love for us is revealed.    

In walking through the commandments in this series it would seem that not much has changed with the ‘evolution’ of humanity.  As we have become more ‘civilized and advanced’ so does our creativity in breaking God’s rules of life.  Not much has really changed in that regard since the days of Moses and the Israelites.  

Another thing hasn’t changed: God’s will for our lives.  God created us with a deep longing for relationship with Him and with a deep purpose of glorifying Him.  

The 10th command, ‘Do not covet’, stands on its own individually as 1 of 10 commands.  Yet, it also functions as a summary of the second table, ‘Love your neighbor’, that points once again to the 1st command, ‘Love God above all.’  The 10th command goes much deeper than addressing possessions and relationships – it goes to the heart of it all – the desires of the human heart.

This will be the focus of our engagement with the 10th commandments Sunday: What are the desires of your heart?   

See you Sunday – Palm Sunday… 

Peace,
Pastor Mark