The Promise of the Second Commandment – A Kingdom Catechism

The Promise of the Second Commandment

A Kingdom Catechism

God holds out fullness of blessing for faithfulness in worship.

Q 62: What promise does God hold out for His people in the second commandment?

A 62: In exchange for their obedience to the second commandment God promises to show His steadfast love to His people, to account them blameless before Him, and to keep them and their communities free of abominable wickedness. (Exod. 20:6; Deut. 5:10; Deut. 18:9-13; Deut. 13:11)

All the blessings God’s people could ever desire come to them through the vehicle of worship. God promises that devotion to Him, according to His ways, will result in blessings more than we could ever possibly consume.

But the realization of those blessings is contingent upon faithfulness in worship. When we seek God in worship, He bestows His blessings in abundance. If we seek our blessings through worship, we corrupt the practice of worship and, in spite of any temporary sense of well-being, we forfeit the larger blessings God holds in store for us.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.