DAY 10 – January 3 -- THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
On the tenth day of Christmas my TRUE LOVE (GOD) gave to ME … TEN LORDS A-LEAPING.
MEANING – The ‘TEN LORDS A-LEAPING’ are the 10 Commandments delivered to Moses by God on Mount Sinai (Exodus 20:1-17). As a young person, I learned that they can be divided into ‘my duty towards God and my duty towards my neighbour’. Many centuries later, on another mountain, Jesus/God, the new Moses, would deliver the 2 Great Commandments directly to people… no longer was an intermediary needed. Today, the 2 Great Commandments are the foundation stones upon which the worship and action of the Christian Church is built.
SOMETHING TO DO TODAY – repeat 3 times Jesus’ Two Great Commandments … ‘The Lord our God is one. Love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first and the great commandment.
The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.
There is no commandment greater than these two’.
The song THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS was written in the 16th century to teach the basic tenets of the Christian Faith to children. It is Christianity 101 wrapped in a song. Feel free to forward this to a friend. You can watch the whole 12 days of Christmas grow on my blog. http://mossfromarollingstone.blogspot.com
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