A Guide for Treating Others

The Holy Bible has the perfect guide for how to treat others, and in a world where everyone is trying to get ahead it can give the guidance we need. It's message is simple.

Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:35-40)

This is not the only place that the Bible gives guidance on how to treat others:

Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets. (Luke 6:31)

Further, Christ also had this to say:

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. (Matthew 7:2)

What more do we need to know? We are to love others as we love ourselves. We are to treat others as

we want to be treated. And you are not to judge others. This is more difficult to do than it seems. Are you to love the person that threatened your child? Are you to treat the person that stole your car as you want to be treated? Should you not pass judgement on those who wrong you? Jesus was clear on these things. I do not think he meant love others, but only when they do not wrong you. He did not mean only treat others that treat you well as you would yourself. He meant to do these things with everyone.

These are things I have struggled with since returning to the Lord. Am I to love my ex-wife even when she withholds contact with my son? Am I to treat the person that hit my car and drove off without so much as leaving a note as I want to be treated? Am I to not to judge the guy that threatened a female friend of mine with physical violence? I know what the Bible tells me to do, but emotions get in my way, and I find myself hating, treating others badly, and judging people. I have found that the best I can do is keep trying to do what the Bible tells me to do. And if I keep trying to do those things, maybe eventually I will.