Who is your God?

Exodus 20:3 "You must not have any other god but me."

Many of us learned the Ten Commandments when we were children.  I remember having it posted in our house for a while for us to learn and try to understand.  Our country was founded on the principles founded in the Ten Commandments.  Most courts have the Ten Commandments displayed somewhere prominently because the American Judicial System was based on the Ten Commandments. As the years have progressed, it seems that the Ten Commandments have been put by the wayside.  In our country today people don't want to acknowledge that there is a God.  Instead they look to themselves to be their god.  Everything that is said and done ultimately has a an underlying result of how it will affect them. 

When I look at the Ten Commandments, I have to look at the first verse.  Everything else in the commandments is derived from the first verse.  If we place God first in our life and honor him with everything that we do, then all of the other rules will be followed without any problem.  It is when we place something higher than God that our lives end up in turmoil. 

I was speaking to my son the other day regarding him working out.  He is so energized by being able to be physically fit. He keeps telling me that his goal is to get a six pack.    He wants to look good.  We discussed that it was okay to want to look good, however, he needed to be careful to not go to the extreme.  When he begins to focus on his body and how he looks more than he focuses on God and what God wants then that becomes an issue.  I encouraged him to focus on his physical appearance, but to focus more on his spiritual walk with his heavenly father.

What do you have that is above God?  Is it your work?  What about your family?  How about yourself?  We must be careful to not place our self higher than God. 

Lord, Keep me humble so that I may always know that you are God and I am not.