10 Basic Truths

To know a Truth and live it is a beautiful thing, friend. You can accept a Truth, adjust your life to follow it, and then swear to honor it until your Earthly death. For to listen to Truth is to listen to God speaking to you. From hearing Him, you grow closer to Him so that you may be with Him forever.

God indeed does love you, more so than you can possibly imagine. Think of your greatest love, and imagine how much more infinitely possible God can multiply that love for you. He gives you Truths to follow so that you may find Him and understand Him, ultimately to love Him back. For He wants you to come to know Him and love Him for all that He is.

Since I want this place to be about Truth always; I wanted to start off with 10 good Truths that you should always follow -- coming directly from Him, more properly known as the 10 commandments. From thinking about each of these and relating them to your life, you can find many more Truths for these are indeed a great starting point on your road towards living the Life of Truth with Him.

1. I the Lord am your God, you shall have no other gods before me.
2. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.
3. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy
4. You shall honor your parents
5. You shall not murder
6. You shall not commit adultery
7. You shall not steal
8. You shall not bear false witness
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's possessions

Each one of these Truths has such a deep meaning that they can never be taken for face value. So much Truth is behind each one that they spring forth many other Truths just by reading them over and over again. While I shall cover each of these in more depth as we continue, here is just a little sampling:

I the Lord am your God, you shall have no other gods before me.
Recall that I told you that only God can make Truths for a Truth exists outside of time and space. For only God can do this for he is infinite -- he has no weight, size, location, or any measurement that could bound him. He makes Truth. What God tells you in this Truth is that he IS God, the Being, the infinite One. The universe could not have two Beings -- or more; only one Being defines everything, one singular entity that makes everything. So it should make sense to you then that there are no other gods because everything besides Him is simply finite.

You shall not steal
God knows how society, our civilization should work. He has a plan. He puts down Truths for us to follow so we can live in a civil fashion, respecting one another. If we follow His Truths, our society works out! If we don't, society falls apart. Let it be said here my friend, that many of the reasons why our society falls apart is that we do not follow Truths, but false imitations of Truth. God says to us, the Truth is You shall not steal! However some of us make exceptions to the rule and think that it is OK to steal sometimes, or loot in other times. No! If this is what you do, I implore you to stop now and never steal again. To follow this Truth is to respect your neighbor's property, and his rights to create goods that he or she sells to feed his family and make his or her way through life to God. To not follow this Truth would be to disrespect him or her, and then make it harder, more difficult, or impossible for them to do so. Society can't work out until we all restrain ourselves, stop stealing and follow this Truth, always.

So you see, friend, we have a lot to discuss and talk about as we go forward. This is only the beginning of Truth, there are countless others waiting to be discovered. That will have to wait for the next chapter.