DO UNTO OTHERS .........

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"DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU"

We
all go through something. This is true. What works for me, may not work
for you. What's acceptable for you...I may not can totally grasp. To
each of us is given a level of understanding, grace, hope, and
clarity....

This week, I was tested to maybe the highest degree
that I will be tested online. I had the chance to "prove" everything
that I write about, talk about, and believe in, when a situation came
up concerning forgiveness, misrepresentation, and lying.

A
dear friend to me revealed that they were not who they said they were. 
And went on to prove what they were saying is true. I did take the time
to listen to them, and let her explain.  Although I still don't see why
the deception was necessary, I had to call on everything I believe in.

Forgiveness
first, because she did lie.  I was made to think she was one person, and
she was someone else.  Forgiveness because this was an ongoing thing,
and not just a first impression type thing.  We had a relationship as
friends. And the other day, I went through this whole forgiveness thing
with a friend.  She literally preached me a sermon, and didn't know it.
I kept saying, "why is she telling me all this?"  And it was something
in me that quickened, and I stopped to actually feed on her words.  And
today, I know it was a message for me about something that was going to
happen.

Understanding. I always want to be to others what I
want them to be to me.  If I want forgiveness, or understanding, I
should be able to give it. If I want something from God, I have to show
myself able to give mercy to others.  He said that whatever I do to the
'least' of these, I do it unto Him.  So, I gave up what I would like
from a friend of mine...

And besides, she did have the courage to tell me the whole truth.  Do we exercise the same with our friends?  Do they know 'everything' about us?

Will I forget it? I would hope that in
time, I will. Jesus doesn't hold my sins against me.  So, go figure. 
And, even with my humanness, I still wanna be like Him one day.  I still
love her as a friend, and I understand why she had to do things they
way she did.  It's up to her and her God as to chastisement.  I'd hate
for God to be punishing me for something someone else did.  LOL

I
extend the best of me to my friends. This means that any one of my
friends may have been in that place.  Whether it be a switched identity,
blatant untruths, and all kinds of deceptions, I have to be to you what
I want you to be to me...