Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:37–40)
Do you want to come to God on that kind of basis? Are you prepared to tell God today that you do love Him, love Him every moment of the day and have loved Him with all your mind, your heart and your soul, that you have never loved or put anything ahead of Him? Are you prepared to say to God that you do love your neighbor as yourself? Unless you are, my friend, stay away from the Ten Commandments as a means of salvation. They do not save you. They will condemn you.
“Weighed in the balances and found wanting” was the experience of a king in Daniel’s day. And today, when the Ten Commandments are put on one side of the balances and you or I step on the other, we will fall short. We will have been found wanting, my friend. The Law reveals who God is, and it reveals how far man and God are apart.
BigMack
I kinda like the one from the Psalm in the reading SoothingDave posted this morning:
Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
my guilt I covered not.
I said, "I confess my faults to the Lord,"
and you took away the guilt of my sin.