Doing Unto Others.
Imagine if in this life your soul is being perfected toward a state of Godliness- purified as in a refiners fire. Imagine if you are georgeous but have a compulsion to abuse people doggedly then you go through the test at the pearly gates where they play back the tapes and they see that your being has a compulsion to dog people-do them dirty then ditch and run around on them. You might, according to the laws of Karma get to come back - a Golden Retriever. Don''t laugh. I have met a few golden retrievers who were nicer to be around than a few people.
This isn't catholic orthodoxy- but lets assume, arguendo that Karma operates like this.
Jesus said-and old testament scripture also affirms- do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The unwritten part is -because that is a spiritual law of gravity that is going to happen anyway.
Anyway- unless you get more MERCY than what you deserve- more GRACE to overcome what you should get.
Imagine if you had a compulsion to keep putting women down- you may get to come back as a woman. Imagine if you had a compulsion to keep shouting profanities in a family of pious people who can't get you to control your foul mouth- you then get to come back as the pious person having to listen to all of that every day. You may not have to go very far to 'come back' to experience what you dished out. It could come back in this life or the next.
What does God say about giving and doing good? You put it out there it comes back to you a hundred fold more. What does he say about forgiveness- same deal. That's what they call "more abundantly than you can imagine." The 'prosperity gospel' guys get a lot of flack for repeating it, but they know something. The gravitational laws of God's Mercy and Grace operate in a world where he knows everything, owns everything (the whole world and everything in it) and we are kingdom heirs after his promise. Children of the Most High. You think he has a plastic Charlie Brown Christmas Tree with nothing under it for you? How good are you? Now, How Good is GOD.
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