14th February 2005
I have been in a very deep depression the past couple of weeks. I had stopped seeing my therapist a few weeks before Christmas, and also stopped the meds shortly after. The financial strain was just a tad much for me. At work my boss had cut my base salary and did a host of other things so that the prospect of earning commissions to make up for the difference is drastically minimized.
The challenges I face in my workplace continue to mount, and it looks like my days there are numbered. Even if I am not fired, I might have a nervous breakdown before that!
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14th February 2005
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In preparation for submission to the Christian Carnival this week, I updated this post with a final paragraph to make clear the point of the post
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What is the eleventh commandment?
That used to be one of the trick questions that as kids my friends and I asked one another. The answer we were looking for was the “New Commandment” that Jesus gave His disciples:
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
I used to wonder why Jesus called this the “new commandment.” Why new commandment? What is so special about the new commandment that the first ten didn’t cover? Another way to look at it is, if we were diligently to keep the ten commandments in our relationship with members of the Body of Christ, would we thereby have fulfilled the new commandment?
If the answer is in the affirmative, then why did the Lord Jesus explicitly give the new commandment to His disciples? Why couldn’t he had simply commanded His disciples to be especially careful about keeping the ten commandments in their relationships within the community of faith? In fact, why be “extra careful” if just normally following the ten commandments would have done the job as well?
So, how is the love that Christians should show for one another any different to the love that they have for their neighbors? One possible answer is Read the rest of this entry »
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