Every time I read about the Lord giving Moses the commandments, a scene from the 1956 movie, The Ten Commandments, runs through my head.

Wham! You shall have no other gods before me.

Wham! You shall not make for yourself a carved image…

Wham! You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

Wham! Wham! Wham! Through all ten. No doubt, God meant to be taken seriously.

And followers of the Lord have taken these ten commandments seriously for thousands of years. Of course, we don’t follow them perfectly, and we flaunt them at times, always to our detriment.

We live in a day where many challenge truth, especially truth claiming God as author. That’s our loss. Mirror these ten commandments with the beatitudes of Jesus, and I cannot fathom a better basis for living a rich and meaningful life.

Instructions from the finger of God don’t come along all that often. I’d better pay attention.

Exodus 20 in week six of reading the Bible cover to cover