The Second Commandment

The second commandment: Do not worship false Gods.
Many people group this commandment in with the first one... Worship God above all things. Because if we worship God above all other things, then aren't we following the second commandment? Not really.
God is telling us that there are no minor gods or idols that we need to worship. We should merely worship Him and Him alone. This also means that we need not worship any other living being. We do not need to bow down to kings, to bow down to our rulers or bosses or so called 'superiors'. We need only worship God.
Yet this is so much harder than it seems... for it is not just people who tempt us to worship them. There are also items. We have to avoid worshiping money, our cell phones, our houses. We must put God above all else.
It's easy to think, "I do that. I don't bow down to my cellphone... I mean, it's a PHONE. Who does that?" But then you have to stop and think. How many hours a day to you spend on your cellphone? How many hours a day to you spend with God?
If God is your all, then do you talk to him more than your family? Your friends? Your computer?
If the reason that we were made was to prove to God that we were worthy of heaven, then why would we spend our lives doing anything else? Everything we do in life should be either participating in good works or doing something to build up to participating in God's good works. This doesn't mean God wants you to quit school and go off and serve the poor. But it does mean that you should work hard to get a job that involves helping people or spreading God's word. Or a job in which you act as an example of a true Christian for your co-workers. Or a job where you give a lot of your salary to the poor.
There are so many ways to serve God, one just has to remember that serving God is the goal. As a Haitian prayer from "God is no Stranger" says, "Help us to sow good seed, since we will be the ones eating from the harvest."
We must sow our good deeds like seeds, sow new people into the ground of Christianity, for we will be the ones reaping the benefits of heaven when the harvest comes and God judges us.