The Ten Commandments are God’s new agreement with his people after he led them out of slavery in Egypt. They are God’s way of helping them to stay on the road to freedom. God gave the commandments for their good and for ours.
As much as they were for the Jewish people coming out of slavery and heading to the Promised Land, the Ten Commandments are for us, because God does not want us hurt. God wants to give us freedom from slavery and life in abundance. And freedom does not come from obeying a set of rules. Freedom comes when we have God’s guidance written on our hearts, as we know that God is with us and for us.
In many of the stories in the Hebrew Bible, we see that God appears as a God who defends us against our enemies, protects us against dangers, and guides us to freedom. God is God-for-us.
Henri Nouwen wrote, “ When Jesus comes, a new dimension of the covenant is revealed. In Jesus, God is born, grows to maturity, lives, suffers, and dies as we do. God is God-with-us. Finally, when Jesus leaves he promises the Holy Spirit. In the Holy Spirit, God reveals the full depth of the covenant. God wants to be as close to us as our breath. God wants to breathe in us, so that all we say, think and do is completely inspired by God. God is God-within-us. Thus God's covenant reveals to us to how much God loves us.”
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