January 25, 2012 — The First Commandment

Last week I was reading through the Journal Times newspaper and saw a picture of Mayor Dickert reading to students at some school.  I quietly thought to myself, we should get him to come to Trinity and visit and read to our students.  Then I heard yesterday that he is doing just that, today.  I guess he will be here about 12:30 and will be visiting and reading to some students around 1:30.  Of course, I have an appointment at 1:30 to visit one of my shut ins.  I just think it’s neat that he is taking an interest in our schools and spending some valuable time visiting them.  Too bad I don’t live in Racine so I can’t vote for him.

Martin Luther continues in the Large Catechism on the First Commandment,

I’m sure you’ve heard the pastor say something along the lines of, “They are called the 10 Commandments not the 10 Suggestions.”  God didn’t put the Commandments out there as Guidelines.  They are what He expects.  They are His demands.  And what He demands most and first is that He is the only God in our lives.  As Luther says, we should “not regard it as a joke.”  This is serious business.  If we can’t keep this First Commandment, there is no way we can keep any of the others.

Well, we called our sixth principal last night.  Of course, that doesn’t count Pastor Eseman who was paster, teacher, principal when we first opened.  Our principals have served for 13, 36, 21, 24 and 8 years (all double digits except for the last one).  We have been very blessed.  Our prayer is that Mr. Greg Hasseldahl will give this deep consideration and accept the call.  God bless and have a blessed day.