Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today's Reading: Exodus 20:1-17 Daily Lectionary: 1 Samuel 3:1-21; Acts 16:1-22 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (Exodus 20:2) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The Ten Commandments are beautiful. They were given to the people of Israel, who had been liberated from slavery in Egypt and were being led through the wilderness into a land flowing with milk and honey, full of towns and habitations that they hadn't built but would be given. They were taken from nothing and were being given everything. They were taken out of death and put in to life. What does life look like for liberated slaves who are being given everything? The Lord knows what is best for them. When they come into the land that the Lord is giving them, this is what they should do and how they should live. In short, they should love God and love their neighbors, and everything will be beautiful and lovely. We sometimes trick ourselves into believing that things are accidentally bad, tha