Spiritual Food for Thought: 10 & 2!

TEN & TWO
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Did you know that placing your hands on a steering wheel in the 10 and 2 o’clock positions is now considered outdated and unsafe? Due to time and technology, that is…the invention of air bags, it is now considered safer to put your hands in a much lower position on a steering wheel while driving. Well, that particular 10 & 2 might’ve become obsolete, but let me share with you another 10 & 2 which will always stand the test of time (pun intended)!

I spent about 15 years in the career of air traffic control. While working in control towers, there was saying we had whenever someone wasn’t giving their full attention to the job at hand. We would say “Ten and Two…Ten and Two!” What this meant to the hearer was “Turn around, get focused and pay attention to what’s in front of you. Don’t allow yourself to be distracted by what’s behind you.” This was an effective phrase and it’s still used today. As profound as that might be, there is an even better 10 & 2 which pertains to our focus and is far more important!

Through a man named Moses, the God of our universe delivered to mankind a set of divine instructions known as the Ten Commandments. In both the Old and New Testaments of a Christian Bible, you’ll also find Two Great Commands which sum up the Ten Commandments. The Two Great Commands instruct us to love the LORD our God (YHVH our Elohim) with our entire being and to also love our fellow person the same way we love ourselves. Yeshua, the express image and likeness of the Father and Source of all existence, told us that all of the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commands.

Now, if you know your history regarding the Israelites, then you’ll know they had a very hard time keeping the commands of YHVH; His divine 10 & 2. And so, at Hebrews 8:8-10 we find the writer declaring:

“Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
So if you have had a hard time living for God, you’re not alone. You’re probably just missing the key ingredient which will energize you now and be used later to resurrect you as an immortal creature. I’m referring to the Spirit of Yeshua…the Holy Spirit of YHVH. Again, as you would’ve read in a previous article, all children of Adam and Eve are destined to die and the only thing that will grant us everlasting life (which we don’t not currently have) in God’s Kingdom is the holy stamp of His Spirit on our souls.

If you have not yet received the Spirit of God and been made a new person, then I encourage you to first ask the LORD for this great gift. Ask Him for a new heart which desires to keep His commands and grieves at the thought at displeasing Him. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to repent and change your mind regarding any wrong living which you have made room for in your life; no matter how big or small it might seem to you. Confess these things as a means of cleansing and then put all of your faith and hope in Jesus the Christ; Yeshua the Messiah who took on the same flesh you and I have and suffered and died so that we might live forever with Him in His Kingdom by the power of His resurrection!