Do Unto part 3
I guess I better quote the verse I've been Ranting about. Matthew 7:12, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." All of the Law of Moses and everything that the prophets preached and prophesied wrapped up in one "Golden Rule." Treat people how you want to be treated. If you want people to be nice to you... be nice to people. But don't do it because you're trying to GET them to be nice to you. Because if you're trying to get... that's not love. Love is giving. Period. Trying to get something from someone has nothing to do with love. At all. Ever. So don't think, "If I scratch his back he'll scratch mine." No. That's not what it's about. Instead think, "If he's itchy... I got his back." Don't worry about yourself. Don't worry about getting. God has YOUR back. So you're covered. And because you're covered... you can cover people. Receiving and releasing. As we are loved, so we ought to love. Simple. So we don't need to worry about all of the six hundred and some odd laws that the people of Israel spun out of the Ten Commandments. We don't even have to worry about the Ten Commandments, to be honest. Because, unless you're Jewish, the Jewish Law was never given to you in the first place. What we need to be concerned with--not worried about--is love. If we just love each other, everything else will take care of itself. It's all about love. That's the Divine Order of things. Love first, second, last, and always. If you're loving people, you surely won't be breaking the Law anyway. And I think that was Jesus' point. Look at the NEW Commandment for the New Man: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another" (John 13:34). Receive and release the love of God. Let God love you and love Him back by loving people. That's it. That's what God wants from us. Because that's what God wants FOR us. He IS love. What else would He want? What else COULD He want? The heart is concerned with love. Only. Always. God lives in our heart. He IS our heart. His heart beats with love in our chests. So when we do unto others... it has to be love. That's what we want. That's the desire of our heart. And that's what we have. Because that's what God has given us. And that's not just what we have... that's who we are. You are what you eat, right? The bread and the wine. The Lamb and the living water. Receiving what God has for us. Who God is IN us. And then releasing it. Letting what's inside come out. By knowing and believing that it's in there. By filling oureslves to overflowing with what we've already been filled with. We want to be loved. That's the bottom line. That's what everybody wants. So in order to treat others as we would like to be treated... it's love. Just love. You want to be loved. So love people. Feeling love is about giving it, not trying to get it. If you're always on the hunt for what you think you haven't got then you'll miss out on what you have got. But if you give what you've got you'll be able to experience it in a very real way.