Originally Posted by Ernest Reisinger
Here is the second trusted, protecting friend, to guard our ways. It is going to guard our worship. For, you see, when we set about to worship God, all our sins and problems come to the fore to spoil that worship. Satan does not want us to worship the true God in a true way. Therefore, this commandment not only sets out what we are to refrain from in worshipping God, but it also directs our steps so that we will worship him in the way in which he wants to be worshipped. How would you summarize the Second Commandment? What is the thrust of it? I believe it to be this: God wants to bind his people close to him in a union that leaves nothing between them. God wants to forge a close union with you and to let nothing separate you from him.

More and more I sadly and angrily see hordes of people, even assumingly 'good' people ignorant of, ignoring, and/or even flagrantly violating this fundamental law of God. It is critically important for us to be knowledgeable of what this commandment says, teaches, and how it should effect all our being throughout our Christian sojourn on this earth. The Church historically has rightly understood this and written about it often and even incorporated it into their official documents, e.g., The WCF Larger Catechism and the Heidelberg Catechism among others.

Take the time to refresh your mind and heart or perhaps to just begin to comprehend for the first time what God has commanded of all men.

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In His service and grace,

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