THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT
Thou shalt not steal. (Exodus 20:15).
Many people will say, “We always knew that we must not steal. If we do we shall have trouble and probably wind up in prison.” All through the ages it is only the smallest percentage of human beings who have stolen. Respect for other people’s property was learned early in the history of civilization. However, this most fundamental law of life means that actually we cannot steal. You may say you know someone who broke into your house and took your silver. The burgl ar who took your silver actually transferred some silver from your house to someone else’s house, but did he get away with it? If that silver belonged to you by right of conciousness, all the burglars in the world could not have taken it away. In fact, if you had this understanding, you could take a ten dollar bill, put it on the sidewalk in Times Square, and return the next day and it would still be there. Your consciousness of the presence of God in other people would have been so strong that no one could have taken from you what belonged to you by right of that consciousness.
These ten laws of life are things that cannot be done, and so, says the great prophet in effect, do not waste yourself or your life trying to do these things. They cannot be done. They conflict with the fundamental Law of Being.
When we give up trying to steal, then we shall begin to have our own. We shall come into our own rights, and when20we get that, liberation will not be very far off.
This says we cannot take anything that does not belong to us. In fact, one can take something but we cannot get away with it. Just as we receive more than we give, we lose more than we take of that which belongs to someone else. Tithing is a perfect example of taking what is not ours. Failing to give away that which is not ours is a way of stealing. If someone needs our attention, love, concern or sympathy, we are stealing when we deny them. It is our duty as children of God to give to Him that which is his and to respect that which belongs to another and to give and share freely that which is ours.
Giving today,
Z gardener
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