Do Not Pass Go or Collect $200

Think about the first commandment. Do not pass go or collect $200. We can't get past the very first commandment! We're toast at "no other gods," because every subsequent broken commandment is a violation of the first.

When we choose to rebel, by choosing other sins, we are idolizing our own will and mind and so many other things. Maybe we didn't form gods out of wood, stone or metal, but we have not honored God as God. Our love and loyalty to God are broken.

As we walk through the day today, we have choices to make. We will likely make some

decision to elevate our own will over God's by taking something that is not ours, by losing our temper with someone we love, by ruminating on a lustful or hateful thought, or just by leaving the Lord out of our thought processes and decision making completely.

We might violate the first commandment, and every other command if not in our deeds, in our thoughts.

Let this thought capture you. Do not pass Go or collect $200. Stay in jail for just a minute.  and then let the truth of your guilt drive you to Christ.   

Meditate on His life, lived perfectly in your place and His suffering and death that you deserved; His life being exchanged for your sin, His atoning work substituting for the endless wrath of God against us. 

"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God" -I Peter 3:8.

Stay right there. Think about it and let it motivate you to love Him, honor Him, and share the Gospel: the story of His amazing grace, with those around you, who have also broken the first... and all of His commandments.