How do you feel about rules? Do you tend to be a rule follower or a rule breaker? Do rules make you feel comfortable and give you structure or do they feel burdensome or restrictive? Are you more apt to obey when you trust the person making the rules or you understand the reason behind them? Or, maybe you like making the rules but you don’t really like to follow them. Maybe you like to virtue signal and hold the rules over everyone's head but it's really all just for appearance.

When God gave the people the Ten Commandments, He told them that obeying them would be to their benefit. They would give them wisdom and understanding like no other nation and they would be blessed in the new land. By following His rules, they would be His witnesses to everyone around them.

Because His rules were so important, there would be consequences for the disobedient. He warned them to follow every single one and not just the ones they wanted to. He also warned them not to add their own rules to His, reasoning that they had a few good ideas too.

So, we want to follow His rules, so we can become wise, witness to others, and not face the consequences of disobedience.