There's lots of "top ten" lists out there...in fact, I think David Letterman does one ever weeknight on his show. Today, however in my reading, I was in Deuteronomy 5: now That's a "top ten"!
I am struck by one specifically though...tonite it was "to have no other god's before me". It might seem that that's one of those "well that certainly only fits with old testament times"...but it really doesn't...at least not for me!
I do honor other gods...my work, my own sense of "what's right/wrong, and who should suffer for their actions", my own pleasures, money, etc. These things really aren't any less offensive than the actual idols that were made in "thousands-ago-bc". So, I don't have an actual golden calf in my home, or a silver replica of some other god....but I do have "things": and lots of them!
Father: help me to honor you first...above everything and everyone...
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