So whatever you want people to do to you, do just that to them. Matthew 7:12 (TNKT)
Go Do It – Sermon on the Mount Series – Part 14
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“So whatever you want people to do to you, do just that to them. Yes; this is what the law and the prophets are all about. Go in by the narrow gate, the gate that leads to destruction, you see, is nice and wide, and the road going there has plenty of room. Lots of people go that way. But the gate leading to life is narrow, and the road going there is a tight squeeze. Not many people find their way through.” Matthew 7:12-14 (N.T. Wright’s “The Kingdom New Testament Translation”).
PRACTICE: DO TO OTHERS WHAT WE’D WANT THEM TO DO TO US.
Today, we know all too well that broad road that leads to destruction. The road less taken – the narrow path of peace – the Way of Jesus, is summed up in his final command in the Sermon on the Mount. And this command sums up the law and the prophets: do good to others as God has done good to us. How? By empathetically and imaginatively entering into the realities of others and asking, “if I was them, what good would I want them to do to me?”
Then? Enter through the narrow gate – go do it!
No, seriously. Go do it.
PRAYER: Lord, may the love that the Law and the Prophets point to, that is perfectly revealed in your Son, be seen in what we do unto others, because of what you’ve done unto us. Amen.
(HUGE THANKS, LOVE, AND RESPECT to Jarrod for generously sharing these devotions with us! Please continue to pray for him, his family and his work/life. Jump online – on his FB, Twitter or Insta – and encourage him. He’s a legit legend.)
Contributed and Written by: Jarrod McKenna
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