Given Us, Believers in Christ, the Ability...

I've been told in the past that the way we look at the 10 commandments are not the way God desired for us to look at them...
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they basically 'flipped' the order of the Earth to opposite of what God made it to be.


When someone prays over/for someone, they normally say, "Body, soul and spirit," the way it's written in the scripture is actually the other way around... "Spirit, soul, and body."


Where is it that we got it that it's body, first? We, as 'human's' - I put quotes around it because through Jesus we are a new creation - allow our flesh (body) to drive what we do,  and not our spirit. However, it is from our spirit that God desires us to make our decisions.


The entire reason for the 'work of salvation' is changing our way of thinking from gratifying our flesh/'body', to our spirit that God renewed and remade when we accepted Jesus into our heart.


So... going on. That was all the background for what I Really wanted to say. lol...


The 10 Commandments were given to us as blessings, not as laws. If you look at it through the eyes of the body, they look like impossible laws to abide by. But, if you look at them through your spirit, you will see that God has given you the strength to overcome the flesh (body) and to 'walk in the spirit' - to choose to do what God desires you to do by listening to your spirit, and not your flesh.


So, in effect, God has equipped His people in these ways:


1: To look to only God for our everything.
2: To have a personal relationship with Him.
3: To love and hold God's name in such reverence that you will not use it in any kind of way, except for when talking specifically about/to Him.
4: That there is enough time each week to take an entire day to devote to God. That He will supply all your needs, and help you through whatever needs to be done in perfect timing.
5: To Honor our father and mother in such a way that it would glorify God.
6: To walk in love, and not hate. To hate the act of evil, not the do'er of evil.
7: To walk free of physical lust.
8: That God will provide all our needs according to His riches in Glory.
9: To tell the truth, knowing that the truth will set you free.
10: To walk free of all other kinds of lust.


In return, He gave us two commandments that He requires we obey:


1: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength (again, in order of spirit, soul, and body)
2: To love your neighbor as yourself.
- To take care of your neighbors (anyone around you at any point in the day) as you would yourself. AKA - If they need something, giving it to them without expecting it returned. Money, or any other kind of thing.