Where in the World are the Ten Commandments

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Whatever happened to the Ten Commandments? They used to be posted in public schools, judicial buildings (which makes perfect sense to me) and other government properties across the nation. 

In 1980, however, the Supreme Court ruled that they must be removed from all public schools. And over the next few years, they were slowly removed from most public places altogether. 

Does it surprise anyone that the nation’s moral compass has simultaneously disappeared? We can’t teach a moral standard based on absolute Truth in our schools. We can’t expect Legislators to write moral standards into laws or Justices to uphold them in court. Moral relativism is the standard today because there is no concrete “right” or “wrong.”

God must be saddened by the wisdom (or lack thereof) of our people in the United States. He gave the Ten Commandments for everybody’s good. And we have thrown them away. 

Lord, I feel like we have gone too far to be able to fix this in our country. Have mercy on us. May those of us who still cherish your Commandments continue to live by them daily —and to teach them to our children and to our children’s children.