On the Fifth Day of Christmas...

Here’s a brief blog series on each of the 12 days of Christmas, with Christian meanings.
 

On the fifth day of Christmas, my True Love [God] gave to me:

Five gold-en riiiiings!

Five Books of the Law
 

The Jews have an annual feast to celebrate God’s giving of the Law: Shavuot.  It remembers Moses coming down Sinai with the two tablets of the Ten Commandments.
 
Christians tend not to celebrate the law as they should.  We have largely lost the Psalmist’s heart cry, “Oh, how I love your law!  It is my meditation all the day” (Psalm 119:97).

 
It can be helpful to read the Ten Commandments as God’s wedding vows, as He takes Israel as His bride.  “I have done this for you; you be faithful to Me in these ways.”
1 – no other husbands/gods
2 – no pictures, either, to run after them
3 – take My name and wear it well
4 – spend time with Me
5 – honor your ancestors and authorities
6 – no physical harm
7 – obvious
Etc
 
All those obscure Levitical laws were specific things God gave us to do to show that we are set apart as His bride, and no one else’s.
 
So cherish all of the Bible in 2021, as coming from the God who loves you.