Re:Verse passage – Exodus 20:4-6 (day six)
It’s not only punitive, it’s reality. Growing up in west Africa there were a
number of things that were essential to living a healthy life, like malaria medicine, or filtered water. To remove either one of these, especially filtered water, you would avail yourself to all sorts of disastrous results. Removing God and erecting an idol in your life is very similar. You cannot expect your life or family to function in a productive, healthy way when you take God out of center.
That’s exactly God’s warning in the second commandment-your family will go awry for generations if you worship idols.
Such an insightful point, so many people don’t realize that they are doing this because the generations before them had their own idols. We are so busy and worried with life that we forget who gave us life. Thank you for reminding me.