How Do You Treat People?

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Verses:  Matthew 7:12

My thoughts about the verses:

I love this picture because it shows that even animals love their young.  They protect them.  They make sure that they provide food for their young.  They teach them how to survive in the wild.  When you see images like this you can definitely see what love is all about.

The question that we need to ask is how we treat Jesus. Are we outside the loving embrace of Jesus?  Do we love Jesus?  Are we walking through life without loving God like a child would a parent?

It does matter how you answer these questions.  If you walk in a tight embrace with Jesus then you have the gift of salvation in your life.  In turn you become a child of God.  Jesus protects you from the world.  Simply when you have Jesus in your life when the struggles of the world come you have a parent that will help you through.  You will have the love that you need.  The only thing that you need to do is accept the love of God.  Amazingly when you love God you are filled with an inner peace that you cannot explain.  You know the strength of God in the good and bad times.

Now what happens if you do not love God?  Firstly, you will never truly any peace or serenity.  You may think you are but with the love of God in your life you would the true chaos that you have been in.  There is no direct communing between you and God.  You may have friends that are there.  Yet we also know friends that will not be there.  We miss the fact with God our best friend is right there loving us and helping us.  Yet, without the connection of God you will live without the love of Jesus in your life.

Next big Question is how we want people to treat us.  Do we want people to dislike us?  Do we want people to fear you?  Do you want people to mock you?  Do you want people to not love you?

This is an easy question for us to answer.  None of us want to be treated with disrespect.  We want people to love us.  We want to feel safe around people.  We do not want people to mock us or bully us.

We have seen how animals interact with each other’s.  We have seen how we should love Jesus.  WE also learned that when you love Jesus we are loved back.  Now we can answer the question of how do we treat others? 

We need to show people love.  Love comes in many forms.  Loving society is a way of presenting a demeanor of peace.  It is a way of showing peace to others.  Love doesn’t mean that we have to be everyone’s best friend.  Instead we must recognize that you do not know who fellow children of God are.  You also have to remember all individuals were created in God’s image.  When we do not love others then we are not showing love to the one that love us.

We need to not bully or mock others.  This is one of the most important things that we can do.  When you are not bullying someone you are not disrespecting them.  You are not putting someone down because of the way they look.  You are not bullying for the way that they do things.  In that moment you are showing the other post that they are respected to you.  We have to remember that you can hurt them for the rest of life when you bully or mock others.

The best way to live life is to treat others the way you want to be treated.  This is a lesson that people have been taught since the beginning.  Yet, for many this is a hard challenge.  Peopled that have been hurt by other often began distrusting others.  We become afraid that people will hurt us so we put up a wall to defend ourselves. They wall causes us to mock or bully others.   That wall causes us to hurt others because we start thinking that people will hurt others.  Make it a point each day to focus on showing people respect.  You will soon find that when you do this you will heal yourself from any pain you have.  People will start respecting you because when you do not respect or bully others you are actually showing them the love them love. 

Prayer:

Dear God we thank you for your love.  We thank you for giving us everlasting live.  We thank you for treating us fairly.  Help us show others love.  Help us not mock or bully others.  Help us to show people the respect that we all deserve.  We ask all these things in the name of the Holy Parent.  Amen

Questions:

How do you treat others?  What do you need to do today to show others love?