Love One Another. . .

Exodus 20:3-17

A.  The Ten Commandments:
    1-No other Gods before me.
    2-No graven images.
    3-Do not take the Lord's name in Vain
    4-Keep the Sabbath Day Holy
    5-Honor thy Father and Mother
    6-Don't Kill
    7-Do not commit Adultery
    8-Do not steal.
    9-Do not bear false witness (don't lie)
    10-Do not covet.

The two greatest commandments above all others; "Love the Lord thy God with all they heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." and "Love thy neighbour as thyself."

If I were to divide all ten commandments and place them under one of these two commandments, I would place the first five under Loving the Lord, and the next five under loving thy neighbor.  


B.   I personally believe that the three most neglected commandments in our time are no adultery, no lying, and not coveting.
  In regards to adultery, it is blatant everywhere.  Just yesterday, I saw an article that was mocking a female olympian because it proclaims that she (along with football player Tim Tebow) are both virgins.  The world has become such, that people (and even children in high school), can and will be ridiculed for honoring this commandment.  I heard somewhere that one half of all children born in the U.S, are born to unwed parents. It makes it even more important that we are preparing our own children with the knowledge and testimony to face the persecution in the battle for purity.
  When it comes to coveting, all you have to do is look at magazine covers in the checkout aisle of your local grocery store, and see what the world all wants and is jealous of.  Fancy celebrities with their fancy clothes and belongings are pasted over the front.  Even their "fancy bodies" are displayed to send a message of "don't you wish you had this?"  We are a culture very based on things and gadgets, and needing to own the latest and greatest.  Sadly, "keeping up with the Joneses" is not considered necessarily to be a bad thing (even among the LDS), and we need to be careful of not buying into that coveting behavior.
  And of course, lying seems to only be considered wrong if YOU are the one being lied to.  It seems commonplace to just accept that people are not being truthful.  All you have to do is look at all the paperwork that has to be done in a business transaction, just so you can get someone to sign their name to something they have said, so they will be more truthful later.  I wish we could be back in the day, when a handshake was enough to keep a mans words.
  
  It's hard to imagine a world when all of these commandments were honored.  I picture peace, happiness, joy, and very little suffering in the world.  There would be no broken families, no families torn apart by war, or infidelity.  The world would not be what we know it to be now.  Yet, I still believe we can achieve a great deal of the same peace within the walls of our own home if we take on the commitment ourselves to live the commandments to the fullest of our abilities.