Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller and right now we're going through the Book of Exodus.

Do you worship gods represented by statues and a shrine that's inside your house?

Okay, probably not. How about this? Do you have a shrine to your ancestors with their photos and past

possessions? Okay, again, probably not. Do you know anyone who does any of those things? If you do, you're probably not in a Western context. And in many ways, you might

actually be closer to the original context of the Bible. But for most people in the West,

the Second Commandment actually sounds a little bit bizarre,

or at least the easiest of the Ten Commandments to keep.

Let me read it to you.

You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any lightness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them for I yayy your God imagerless God visiting

iniquity on the fathers of the children to the third and fourth generation of

those who hate me but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Okay, so you following that commandment?

Check, I'm all good, I haven't made any idols lately.

Let's move on to commandment number three.

Not so fast.

In his commencement speech at Kenyan college, the late author David Foster Wallace gave a profound

speech on the topic of worship, despite the fact that he's not even religious at all.

He opens up his talk with a story of two young fish swimming through the ocean.

An older fish comes up to them and he asks them, hey, how's the water, boys?

The two younger fish stare at him, confused,

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