"What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others." - Alexander Severus
A farmer once sold a pound of butter to a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was really getting a pound, he found he wasn't. This angered him so he took the farmer to court. The judge inquired from the farmer what scale he was using. The farmer replied, "Amour honour, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but I do have a scale."
The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?"
The farmer replied "Your Honour, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker."
Some people call it, karma in some religion. Others say it's payback. Yet some others say it's retribution. I see it as being paid back in your own coin. Reading through the bible, one would find that we're advised to be our brother's keeper. Or live peaceably with all men as much as we can, and even to help those who are weak not kill them. It is expedient that we know where to draw the line this morning, between the world system and kingdom system. If the baker had used just weights in the first place, he wouldn't have been served with the same weight by the farmer.
God hates a dishonest weight, and deceit. We get back what we give to others in life. The only problem is, we get a "harvest" - a million times more - of what we "sowed". It is sad that people (including church folks) lie so much today that we don't know what the truth is anymore. Some have become experts in the game that they and can lie with a straight face. This has to change. We're ambassadors for Christ, we must represent him well. We've got to be the salt we're created to be.
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