Re:Verse passage – Exodus 20:16 (day three)
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
It’s not uncommon that other people in your life would become useful to you in the same way that chess pieces are useful to a Grandmaster surveying the board. But regarding someone as useful and regarding someone as valuable are not the same things. When you regard a person as useful, you will think nothing of placing on that person all the responsibility and culpability from which you want to escape. If on the other hand, you regard a person as valuable, you will know that he or she is the very one who can build the kind of life with you in which you help one another grow in character. You will destroy a person you regard as useful. A person you regard as valuable will save your life.
Bryan, your comments today are very insightful & good, but I don’t understand how they
relate to the commandment above. What am I not seeing?
Thanks for your reply. I now understand what you had in mind. Thanks!
Deanna