7th Commandment

God desires us to live in an honest and content way as our hearts are at rest within His own. To steal is to take from others what does not belong to us and reveals a heart that is not at rest. We have received tremendous physical and spiritual gifts from God and have been commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves. Stealing can happen in many ways and even includes when we withhold things from being used by God that are rightfully His. Our time, talents, finances, possessions; even our very lives, when we refuse to allow God to use them is in effect stealing from Him. Stealing reveals a heart not at rest in God’s and that really is the Heart of the Matter.