Everyone knows the golden rule. Whether you are Christian or not most people have heard it. It is a teaching that great theologians, philosophers, prophets, and so on have said for centuries. The Ancient Egyptians and Greeks said it, Islam and Buddhism have scripts enforcing the golden rule. The bible states it more than once but the new testament verse is known by many people,
Mark 12:31- "The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these."
Now before you all shut me off and say there is no way on Earth that we can love everyone, just hold on a second. I think C.S Lewis said it best in his book titled Mere Christianity. His chapter about Charity focuses on the topic of "Christian Love" and he states
"But Whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least to dislike it less."
This is the point that I am trying to come to. We don't have to be madly in love with the whole world. We just need to treat everyone with kindness. And eventually who knows we might all come to care for each other in turn. So, care for someone not because they have a special meaning in your life but because it will help you to come to love the people in this world more and more. Once you give yourself a chance to be kind to the world it becomes easier and easier to do so.
Remember these words from Corinthians: "Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
That's all for now.
Be The Light
Mark 12:31- "The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these."
Now before you all shut me off and say there is no way on Earth that we can love everyone, just hold on a second. I think C.S Lewis said it best in his book titled Mere Christianity. His chapter about Charity focuses on the topic of "Christian Love" and he states
"But Whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least to dislike it less."
This is the point that I am trying to come to. We don't have to be madly in love with the whole world. We just need to treat everyone with kindness. And eventually who knows we might all come to care for each other in turn. So, care for someone not because they have a special meaning in your life but because it will help you to come to love the people in this world more and more. Once you give yourself a chance to be kind to the world it becomes easier and easier to do so.
Remember these words from Corinthians: "Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
That's all for now.
Be The Light
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