It’s so easy a caveman wrote it on a tablet.

Exodus 20
1-2 God spoke all these words: I am God, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a life of slavery.

3 No other gods, only me.

4-6 No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. Don't bow down to them and don't serve them because I am God, your God, and I'm a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I'm unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.

7 No using the name of God, your God, in curses or silly banter; God won't put up with the irreverent use of his name.

8-11 Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don't do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.

12 Honor your father and mother so that you'll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you.

13 No murder.

14 No adultery.

15 No stealing.

16 No lies about your neighbor.

17 No lusting after your neighbor's house—or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

Mike’s thoughts:
Why does that seem just too easy? Why does it seem that living the Christian walk is much harder than that? Could it be that it's really that easy and we just made it harder? Could it be that we like harder rules because it feels like we are earning our salvation? We don’t like handouts so we go to work and we work hard to advance and out work our peers. But with God, he does all the work. Later Jesus summed all the laws and prophets up into two commands, “Love God and Love Others.” How easy is that? Remember this is in the start of the bible and as the bible goes on it doesn’t get harder, the humans get more rowdy.

Prayer:
God, thanks for not putting a list of burdensome commands on us. Thanks that your commands are about loving you and helping us have a full life. Thanks that you wired us to have our full life by loving you. Help us to embrace the fact that you didn’t call us to earn our salvation but to live it by loving you. Help us shape our motivation for living and loving to be about you and not us and our salvation.
Amen