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When I was a boy, my Godly mother taught me the Golden Rule, but she did it in reverse. She would say, "If you don't/wouldn't want so and so treating you like that, then don't treat them like that. It was a guiding principle in my life, and it was a good one.
Jesus taught the Golden Rule as a positive though in Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31 during the Sermon on the Mount, commanding us to, "Do to others as we would wan them to do to us," although in the 30+ plus years of my Christian life, I have found that this principle is overlooked and not practiced.
Now, I know that last statement sounded really negative, so let me explain.
The Golden Rule is akin to other biblical principles such as those of brotherly love, loving one another in deed and truth, and loving each other as Christ loved us (sacrificially) but I really don't see a lot of it going on on a daily basis.
Sure, we're all hugs on Sundays and in our weekday Bible studies even, but what are we doing to help one another the rest of the week?
We spend hundreds of millions of dollars sending missionaries around the world to fulfill the Great Commission; we build marvelous cathedrals to our king; we feed and clothe hungry and unclothed, etc., etc., but what about the person sitting next to us each Sunday morning? Are we treating them like we would want to be treated, loving and helping them - each other - in a sacrificial way on Tuesday at noon or Thursday at midnight?
In short, my question is, are we doing enough to help one another (poll attached, I hope)?
Jesus taught the Golden Rule as a positive though in Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31 during the Sermon on the Mount, commanding us to, "Do to others as we would wan them to do to us," although in the 30+ plus years of my Christian life, I have found that this principle is overlooked and not practiced.
Now, I know that last statement sounded really negative, so let me explain.
The Golden Rule is akin to other biblical principles such as those of brotherly love, loving one another in deed and truth, and loving each other as Christ loved us (sacrificially) but I really don't see a lot of it going on on a daily basis.
Sure, we're all hugs on Sundays and in our weekday Bible studies even, but what are we doing to help one another the rest of the week?
We spend hundreds of millions of dollars sending missionaries around the world to fulfill the Great Commission; we build marvelous cathedrals to our king; we feed and clothe hungry and unclothed, etc., etc., but what about the person sitting next to us each Sunday morning? Are we treating them like we would want to be treated, loving and helping them - each other - in a sacrificial way on Tuesday at noon or Thursday at midnight?
In short, my question is, are we doing enough to help one another (poll attached, I hope)?
