Life Guide

 EXODUS 20 TEN COMMANDMENTS

1. I am the Lord your God ... thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

2. Thou shalt not make for thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water uner the earth; thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days thou shalt labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God.

5. Honor thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and that thy days may   be long upon the earth.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor his field ... nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

For God's commandments to do us any good,

it is necessary to make them ours; that is,

we should try to have them not only as a guide for our actions,

but they should also become our viewpoint,

permeating our subconscious, or, according to the

picturesque expression of the prophet, they should be

written upon the tablets of our hearts.

Then, by personal experience we will be

convinced of their regenerating power,

about which the righteous King David wrote,

''Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of 

the ungodly, nor stands in the oath of sinners,

nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight

is in the law of the Lord, and in His law

he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree

planted by the rivers of water that brings forth

its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither;

and whatever he does shall prosper"

Psalm 1:1-3

-Bishop Alexander (Mileant)-