Day 2 - Questions for Reflection on the First Commandment

The Ten Commandments
Day 2 - Questions for Reflection on the First Commandment
Aug 10, 2005

"Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me." (Exodus 20: 3)

Commanded: Loving God supremely, worshipping Him as the only true God, glorifying Him accordingly, glorying in Him alone, desiring Him and trusting Him exclusively.

1. Do you really know who God is - as He has revealed Himself to you in His revelation of Himself? Do you anxiously search the Scriptures to learn more about Him? Do you hunger and thirst to know Him better?

2. Do you even begin to grasp it: that He is the triune God - God of wisdom, love, justice, the Almighty God? the high and holy One who, nevertheless, loved you so much He humbled himself to become "God in the flesh" for you? to redeem you and possess you for His own?

3. Even if you cannot begin to grasp it (who can?) is your inner life changed because of what you know about Him? Because He is who He is are you filled with reverential fear of Him? afraid of sinning against Him? fearful of displeasing Him? dishonoring Him?
Are you also filled with peace because you "know Him, whom you have believed"? because you have entrusted your soul into His safekeeping? because you rest confident in His almighty care for you?

4. Because He is who He is, are you willing to have him do anything with you that pleases Him? to have Him do anything to you that pleases Him, and glorifies Him? Are you confident that whatever He brings into your life is good and wise? because He is good and wise?

-questions from Lauxstermann"s The Believer's Delight, p 31-2