THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF REALITY

1. The universe is a universe of moral consequences; you reap what you sow.
2. The morally and spiritually fit survive; the rest perish.
3. The Jesus way is written into the structure of the universe.
4. Humility and obedience are the secret of knowledge and power.
5. An organism can expend as much as it receives and no more; therefore receptivity is the first law of life.
6. The second law of life is: you must lose your life to find it again—self-realization comes through self-renunciation for a cause; the cause is the Gospel—the Good News.
7. Greatness comes through service and only through service.
8. Love is the fundamental law of human relationships.
9. Life is an external growth; when you cease to grow you begin to cease to live, you begin to die.
10. All life is lifted by self-sacrifice—by the self-giving love of a cross.

Jesus revealed in his own person and life the laws underlying the universe. What is covert in the universe became overt in him. He is the revelation of God and the universe that God created. Reality is shot through and through with Jesus. He is woven into the very texture of its being, the soul of its soul.

The God who revealed himself through Jesus is the same God who created the universe and built into that universe the laws of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is. It is built into the nature of reality and is the way reality works. When you discover those laws underlying reality, you discover the laws of the Kingdom.

Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you.” It is written in your tissues, your nerve cells, your blood, into you. It is also written into your relationships with each other; it is the way you are made to live corporately; it is the law of our corporate life.

E. STANLEY JONES