Wednesday
August 21, 2024
"Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself"
Some people tend to get the wrong idea or impression when I talk about loving others as if I am asking them to do the impossible. In more cases than not, all I am asking someone to do when it comes to loving their neighbor as themselves is to just treat others as they would like to be treated. It can also mean doing unto others as they would like others to do unto them. I am not saying that anyone has to get all mushy and kissy-faced with an individual as if they are in love with the person. Not even I would want anything such as that to be taking place. So very often in this world, there are people treating one another as if they have never heard of The Ten Commandments or at the very least, how they should be treating one another. People need to begin to realize that even if they cannot seem to get along, they can at least find a way to be civil towards one another as human beings.
So from this day forth oh child of Mine in CHRIST, try treating your neighbor with dignity and respect or as you would like to be treated. People love to say certain things these days like I will respect you when you learn to respect me. Or, you have to give respect in order to get respect. Well I say, respect others even if they do not respect you, because your Heavenly Father, Me, sees everything that transpires. Also, one of the most difficult things you will ever have to do is to love your enemy or to love someone who obviously hates you. Once again, all I ask anyone to do is to treat even the worst of people the way that you would want to be treated. It is so easy to be mean to those who are mean to you, but then what credit is that to you. Can you humble yourself enough to pray for such a person and ask that they be forgiven like The Lord JESUS did for those who had Him crucified? Oh, I can hear it now, people saying that they are not CHRIST JESUS, but do they desire to be a learner and a follower of JESUS CHRIST or not? Live to JESUS therefore and die to self, and blessed you will be for so doing, in His Holy and Most Precious Name.
AMEN
