Why the Golden rule?
I guess I used this scripture just because it’s familiar. Who hasn’t heard of the Golden Rule? Growing up a non-Christian, I only knew this little saying as a poke at someone, a bit of a snide remark.
The Bible intoduces The Golden Rule (TGR) in the books (gospels) of Mark 12:30-31 and Matthew 22: 37-40 The Jewish teachers of the law asked Jesus which of the commandments is the most important? Jesus said” Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength”. The second is this “Love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these”. In Mathew’s gospel Jesus says “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets”.
This commandment became know as The Golden Rule. The lessons presented at KU revolver around this TGR but not all of it. I believe myself that practicing the second commandment is a pathway leading to accomplishing the first commandment.
The second commandment tells us to love our neighbours as ourself. This commandment does not imply any physical action but tells us HOW TO LOVE THEM. We are to use our mind, heart, and our soul and to do it with all our strength. We are all pretty familiar with using our mind but our soul? Our heart? How?
In the book of Jeremia God communicates the New Covenant to him saying, He will put His Law in our minds and write it our heart. He goes on to explain that no more shall every man teach his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying ‘Know the Lord’ for they all shall know me.
KU does not know nor, will be trying to teach what God wants of us. KU teaches how to use the TGR as a tool to send our mind to our heart searching for what God has written there, His law. God has written all about love in our heart. If we want to know how to love someone as ourselves, our heart is where to discover how God loves us. This is where we learn to ‘love our neighbour ourselves’, how God loves us.
KU teaches how to use this method to search our own heart for the information. I am not going to ask you to trust me, I’m asking you to try this method and trust for yourself what you discover between your mind and you heart. You might fall in love with it!
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