What You Done Already Done To You!
Matthew 7:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
12So then, whatever you desire that others would do to and for you, even so do also to and for them, for this is (sums up) the Law and the Prophets.
My life can be pretty hectic with a husband, children, family, school, church, writing, doing business and many other things I often find myself engaged in, but on occasion I am able to treat myself to an afternoon where I can watch a movie. One of my favorite movies of ALL times in “The Color Purple.” There is a scene where Celie breaks free from Albert but she offers him this warning, as he tries to slap her and intimidate her into submission; “Everything you done to me already done to you.' Oprah Winfrey has said of this statement that it is one of the ten Golden rules.
Many times we want people to treat us well, to care for us and to be nice to us, and to sow into us, but when they don’t we get all up in arms. Two things I have learned to live by, first is that I love and treat people how I would want to be treated. I have loved people through pains, and hurt, through betrayal and many things, but I loved all the same, why because my thought has always been if this was me, how would I want to be loved? Secondly, I always think what was or is my motivation for doing the things I do? Am I doing things to have a means to control, a triumph card or to be able to say I helped, or is my motivation, simply to please God and to help. I ask are my actions, characteristic of how God would want me to represent Him. You see what we do does come back around. I recently had something happen to me that hurt to the core, because even though this person betrayed me after taking my friendship, love, assets, my time and finances and effort. Then they did what was best for them by betraying me and not doing what was legally correct or morally right even though I had been there for them. At first it hurt and then I was reminded of this golden rule and that God sees all and He will handle it and I don’t need to seek revenge I just need to keep being the person God created me to be.
I had the pleasure, honor and the humbling experience of taking care of my dad, up until the day he left this earth, I see that I did it not for any other reason other than to let him know that I loved him, and that I wanted his days here to be comfortable and filled with as much joy and care as He could handle. My desire was that my dad had as abundant of a life as humanly possible, my motive was to please God and do what was right by my dad. Many of us don’t think, what we do affects us. We think we can be mean, thoughtless and careless with people and that we can go on and live a life that will be beautiful, whether your days are cut short, or people come into your life to make you as miserable as you have made others, or to hurt you as you have done, it will happen, because those are the seeds that have been sown. Our Pastor says all of the time you cannot plant potatoes and reap a harvest of greens it just doesn’t work like that. If you want goodness, love, kindness, tenderness, understanding, consideration, assistance that is what you should be sowing. If you want God to be pleased with what you are giving, let your actions be guarded by the right motivation and you don’t have to look much further than His word to find out what those things are. But if you want confusion, lack, hurt, pain, discomfort and wrath, bitterness, anger, illness, betrayal, sow those things for they will surely come back to you. Remember “Everything you done to me already done to you.”
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