Hi Max, God bless you.
I have received this great memo by sharing my hearts in this challenge 30.
Memo:
May these words from my mouth and this meditation from my heart be pleasing to your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. [Psalm 19:14 NIV]
I say the Lord is my shepherd and nothing will be missing, he is my rock and redeemer.
However, I want to honor the tenth commandment: Do not desire your neighbor's house; do not want your neighbor's wife; neither his slave, nor his slave, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nothing that belongs to your neighbor.
What does the tenth commandment mean?
Under this commandment as soon as you wanted someone else, you fell into sin. Now the question is, will he return to his senses, catch him or continue rolling on an inclined plane, where does someone else's desire take him?
Desire is the seed of sin. A sinful act is already a harvest of a sown and augmented seed.
Pay attention to the differences between this, the tenth commandment of the Lord and the previous nine. In the previous nine commandments, the Lord God avoids your sinful acts, that is, does not allow the harvest of the seed of sin to grow. And in this tenth commandment, the Lord looks at the root of sin and does not allow you to sin in your thoughts.
Then, the tenth commandment serves as a transition to the Law of Christ, which is more moral, higher and more important than the Law of Moses.
Do not want anything that belongs to your neighbor. Because as soon as you wanted a stranger, you already sowed the seed of evil in your heart, and the seed will grow, grow and grow, and will be strengthened and branched, bringing your hands, your legs, your eyes and your tongue to sin. and your whole body For the body, brothers, it is the executive organ of the soul. The body only executes the orders given by the soul. What the soul wants, the body must fulfill, and what the soul does not want, and the body will not fulfill.
If you envied your neighbor's house today, tomorrow you will begin to make plans, how to appropriate it, the day after tomorrow you will be required to give him his house, and the day after tomorrow you will remove the house or set it on fire.
If today he looked at his wife with lust, tomorrow he will begin to discover how to steal her, the day after tomorrow he will enter into an illegal relationship with her, and the day after tomorrow, together with her, he plans to starve his neighbor and possess his wife.
If today you wanted your neighbor's ox, tomorrow you want this ox twice as strong, the day after tomorrow, four times stronger and the day after tomorrow you will steal the ox. And if a neighbor accuses you of stealing an ox, you will swear in court that this ox is yours.
This is how sinful thoughts grow from sinful thoughts. And also, keep in mind that whoever violates this tenth commandment will violate the other nine commandments, one after another.