YOUCAT Question n. 352 - Part II. What is the meaning of the commandment, “I am the Lord, your God” (Ex 20:2)?
(Youcat
answer - repeated) Because the Almighty has revealed himself to us as our God
and Lord, we must not place anything above him or consider anything more
important or give any other thing or person priority over him. To know God and
to serve and worship him has absolute priority in our life.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2085)
The one and true God first reveals his glory to Israel (Cf. Ex 19:16-25;
24:15-18). The revelation of the vocation and truth of man is linked to the
revelation of God. Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in
conformity with his creation "in the image and likeness of God":
There will never be another God, Trypho, and there has been no other since the
world began… than he who made and ordered the universe. We do not think that
our God is different from yours. He is the same who brought your fathers out of
Egypt "by his powerful hand and his outstretched arm." We do not
place our hope in some other god, for there is none, but in the same God as you
do: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (St. Justin, Dial. cum Tryphone Judaeo 11, 1: PG 6, 497).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) God expects us to give him our full faith;
we should place all our hope in him and direct all the strength of our love
toward him. The commandment to love God is the most important of all
commandments and the key to all the others. That is why it stands at the
beginning of the Ten Commandments.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2087)
Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. St.
Paul speaks of the "obedience of faith" (Rom 1:5; 16:26) as our first
obligation. He shows that "ignorance of God" is the principle and
explanation of all moral deviations (cf. Rom 1:18-32). Our duty toward God is
to believe in him and to bear witness to him.
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