No other worship will be tolerated! I have heard these statements more than once: Who wants to trust a god who won't tell us what is going on, who allows us to do dumb things, who won't give us everything that we want, that lets us learn by our mistakes that leaves life to be so risky and scary? "You shall have no other gods. "You shall have no other gods before me." Please note that it does not say there are no other gods, but you will worship only Me. If the people could not agree with this one, the rest were just meaningless. These 10 were explicit, well defined and straight to the point and it is the first one that concerns us at this moment in time. When Moses stood before the people with the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, he read them and announced that these were the words of Yahweh. We are giving up our allegiance to our many gods of Egypt and are required to worship only one who claims to be above all others?" While monotheism is an easy concept for most moderns to understand, it is clear from the Bible account that Israel did not give up the worship of pagan gods, for any length of time, even after they were settled in Canaan. Who can argue with that? When the people of the Exodus were struggling to escape Egypt and survive in the wilderness, they surely must have had one nagging question, "Is all this pain and suffering worth the effort? We left the security of Egypt to risk our lives on some unknown God's promise. I don't have much faith in the Zodiac, but I am a Gemini and am told that folks like me under that sign are witty, talented, intelligent, great conversationalists and humble. Since we do not have magic mirrors and crystal balls seem to be out of vogue, the next best thing is the Horoscope. But who wants to take a chance when your car cost you an arm and a leg, so to speak? What would we do if we knew what was going to happen today, tomorrow or even in a few years? What if we knew ahead of time who we would marry, what our career might be, where we would live, when we'll be happy and when we'll be sad and when, where and how we will die? Would that be a blessing or a curse? Remember the witch in "Snow White" who had a magic mirror and she would ask, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" If I had such a mirror, I might ask, "Mirror, mirror, hanging over the kegs, who in the world has the greatest legs?" Please do not call Soundoff. However, after some 20,000 miles, you know every noise it makes, every little quirk and when something is not working just right. You really won't know after a test drive. What would have happened if you had known then what you know now? How often do we hear things like, "When I was in school, I would have studied more." "If I had the chance to do it over, I would have done it this way." How can you tell if a car is a lemon or a keeper? Certainly not by the price tag, the looks, the advertisements or the television hype.
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