Thursday, October 20, 2022
- Vessels of Comfort
- Oct 20, 2022
- 1 min read
8TH COMMANDMENT
Exodus 20:15
Inspired by the sermons of an anonymous pastor who served in ministry at Windsor Forest in the 1960’s.
This commandment protects the right of private property. The Bible recognizes the absolute ownership of God. Man holds property under a trust from God, as a steward, but the property still belongs to God, only secondarily to man. God can take it away or man can lose it very quickly.
God forbids stealing. It is taking something that does not belong to you – for which you have not worked and for which you have given no satisfactory payment. It comes from a desire to get something for nothing.
God wants to change the heart of the person who steals. In Ephesians 4:28, Paul says, “let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needed.”
There are a number of ways to steal. Here are a few of them:
Billing for more hours than worked
Borrowing and not returning
Getting paid, while not diligently working
PRAYER: Lord, I want to honor you in all that I do. Cleanse my heart from trying to get something for nothing. Let me be a good steward of the talents you have given me. I don’t want to be like the wicked servant who reaped where he did not sow, nor gathered where he had not strawed (Matthew 25:24-26). In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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