Commandments Often Don’t Explain, Part 2 (TMF:2278)

Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Peace to Live By: Commandments Often Don’t Explain, Part 2 (TMF:2278) - Daniel Litton
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       Another reason that the Bible often doesn’t explain the ‘why not’ behind not doing a certain behavior is simply because God doesn’t have to always explain why he doesn’t want us to do something. In other words, we keep a commandment, especially if it is an ordinance, in order to be pleasing to him. And by being pleasing to him, after the task is accomplished, we feel happy, right? Of course we feel happy. It might be so obvious to everyone, for instance, why Christians get water-baptized after believing in Jesus. We may even think that’s something we really don’t need to do. But if we don’t do that, then there is likely going to be that ‘cloud’ hanging over our heads nagging us to do it. The two greatest commandments have to do with love, right? Yes, we are first to love God with our whole beings, and then we are also to love our neighbors as we already love ourselves. These two commandments are given in the forms of summaries in the Bible. And, at times, it may not seem obvious why are we to do them. We may not feel like showing love all the time. But, in practice we know that when we do show love always, that we feel better, and we find that we are indeed happier.