The 9 previous posts have all been actions for us to live by the golden rule. If you haven't read them, go back and take a few minutes to do so. As you can see, these are things we have to be on purpose with. Kids will often say "she did that on purpose" or "he hit me on purpose." As we go about our lives, we can say - "YES! I did that on purpose!" I'm living an on-purpose, golden-rule lead life.
Colossians 3:12-17 is one of my favorite passages. The apostle Paul says here for us to "put on" certain things. He's telling us that we have to do things on purpose!
"Put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grade in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." (Col. 3:12-17)
Each of these items are things that we do to others. When we put on kindness, we are being kind to someone else, when we put on love, we behave in a loving way towards others. These things don't just happen like a light coming from above and a chorus singing behind us, but we have to do them on purpose.
Choose today to be on purpose with your behavior, and choose to live by the golden rule.
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