Life

Mystery Rose  #3 of Russet Rose Series

Thou shalt not kill.

Exodus 20:13

There was no question among the children as to the meaning of this commandment.  God didn’t stutter.  In as plain a language as possible, He said, You will not kill.  The last six of the commandments speak to our relationship with our fellow human beings.  God commands: Do not take a life.  That which we would not want to happen to ourselves, we should not perpetrate on another.

Human life does not appear to have a great deal of value in many corners of our world today.  There are those who will take someone’s life for the $5 in their pocket, for sexual gratification, for their victim’s possessions, or just for the thrill of the “hunt.”  Others will gladly sacrifice your life because you do not believe the same way they do.  Religion has long been the source for wholesale slaughter, as has political ideology.  Some live for death as avidly as others cherish life.

There is no greater gift in all this world than life.  There is no greater tragedy than the taking of a life before its natural time.  Jesus said that He came that we might have abundant life!  I challenged my young friends to look for ways to give life, rather than to take life.  It is a worthy challenge for all of us.

I will never take a life, but give life to all.

That’s what God wants me to do,

That’s what God wants me to do,

That’s what God wants me to do

And I am His child.

[Sung to the tune Bingo]