Reactionary

We are a reactionary society. The way we treat other is how they treat us. It is so easy to say they treat me poorly, so I am going to treat them the same way, because they do not deserve to be treated better.

The problem with that mindset as a Christian is that God has given us a command, an instruction. In Matthew 7:12 Jesus says "“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets." or in Luke 6:31 it says "Do to others as you would have them do to you." This is the Law, what does that mean to you? I think it is pretty clear, but right now you are probably thinking that the others do not deserve to be treated how you want to be treated, so you will treat them any way you want. It is said that is a Golden Rule, it isn't just a suggestion, it is a direction in the Bible.

I think it is clear today that people take the Bible not for what it says, but for what they want it to say, but we have clear direction of what to do, how to be and how to walk in the Bible, but we are to caught up in ourselves that we are missing the very truth the God (the Bible) has to offer. We are doing our own things, we are treating others not how God has instructed us to, we are treating them how they treat us. When we love God more than ourselves, it shouldn't matter how others treat us, it should matter how we treat them that is the truth of it all. God wrote it and I believe it, do you?

I challenge you today, do not treat others how they treat you, treat them how God calls you to treat them, He has written commands in the Bible, not for us to ignore, but for us to do. Do you want others to see the Love of Jesus in you? This is one step to doing that, can you imagine if we as Christians start to follow what God has instructed us to do? Our lives, our marriages, our families would be different, because it would not be about self, it would be about doing it God's way.