That's Not What He Told Us to Do
Do unto others … Judge not … Love your neighbor … Most people would agree that all of these lessons constitute sage advice, yet how many of us actually follow them? Oh, sure, we follow them sometimes, especially when it’s easy, but do we follow through when it’s not so easy? I try, and I’m doing better, but there are times when I’m not kind, certainly in thought, even if my deeds are pretty solid, and thoughts count, too. This is the perfect time to think about this with all the polarity out there, especially since the election.
It’s been a while, but I’ve been attacked by people in the past regarding what I’ve written, especially when channeled messages contradict certain religious beliefs. The Archangels’ messages I share are always positive and comforting, at least from my perspective, but they don’t always coincide with religious doctrine. I always suggest to my readers that they take what resonates and leave the rest. The intent behind sharing them is always good, and I never want to offend anyone, but there have been times when people have taken offense. I’ve been damned to hell many times. Thankfully, I don’t believe there’s a hell, and I certainly don’t believe anyone on Earth has the power to send me to such a place, in any case.
As the announcements of upcoming presidential cabinet members are made, I catch myself when I think bad thoughts. After all, I don’t know these people, certainly not personally. I know them by reputation and personal history only, and while those details can be somewhat justifiably disconcerting, they’re also only part of the picture. It’s tempting to fall back on past aggravation regarding how so many people could vote the way they did, but I’m trying to avoid that, too. What good does that do? The results are in, and what’s done is done. I don’t want to continue to be upset. That’s a choice we can all make, and I have.
So, I remind myself constantly to not judge others, because I don’t like to be judged. I know that meeting anger with more anger is unproductive at best and only makes things worse, so I refuse to return insults with more insults. I’m not going to act that way. Two wrongs don’t make a right. I don’t like to be treated badly, so I try very hard never to treat others badly. Perhaps the hardest thing to do, however, is to love my neighbor. I mean, some neighbors are really easy to love, right? Especially if they believe as I do. However, the man who spoke those words and said it was the second most important commandment, much like the first, offered no clarification much less qualification of who constitutes your neighbor, am I right?
Yeshua (Jesus) didn’t specify the neighbors should look like we look. He didn’t add that they should practice the same religion or hold the same beliefs that we do, speak the same language, or vote a certain way. He didn’t stipulate that they had to love someone of the opposite sex, remain the same sex they were born into, or be without sin. He didn’t say they needed to meet certain criteria or check certain boxes or that they could be disqualified for any reason. He just told us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Pretty simple.
He also practiced what He preached. He befriended a tax collector, of all things, healed a leper, among others, used the dreaded Samaritan as an example of a what it meant to be a good person, and saved a prostitute and/or adulteress from death by stoning. A woman, for crying out loud! Who else cared about what happened to a mere woman back then? He forgave a common criminal who died next to Him when He must’ve been in excruciating pain, and He begged forgiveness for those responsible for making sure He experienced that excruciating pain, just before He died.
He didn’t pick and choose who he asked His Father to forgive. He didn’t hate the people who didn’t accept Him or who caused Him trouble. He didn’t hate those who disagreed with Him. He didn’t persecute those who persecuted Him or those who ensured His death.
Trump and his cronies make me nervous, but you know who scares me, if I let my guard down and allow fear to poke at me? The Evangelical extremists and the Christian Nationalists. I’m still keeping track of Oklahoma’s mandate to teach the Bible in public school classrooms, and Louisiana’s mandate to post the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms. So far, both men behind these movements have been stalled. I’m also keeping an eye and ear open regarding Project 2025 and the people behind it. I’ve listened to and spoken to people who support such measures, and I struggle to understand their mindset. On the one hand, they are self-professed, diehard Christians, but on the other hand, they don’t seem to follow what Yeshua preached. In short totality, Yeshua preached love. So many of them preach hate, and behind it all is a serious need to control others.
Some of the folks I’ve spoken with quote the Bible often, but I never hear them quote the parts with which I began this article. They can’t, not because they don’t know these passages, but because their actions do not follow these teachings. I was raised a Christian, although I left Christianity behind years ago. I’m pretty familiar with the Bible, as I’ve read most, if not all, of it. I don’t believe it’s entirely accurate or infallible, and there are parts that contradict each other. It may have been inspired by God, but without a doubt in my mind, it was tampered with by men.
I may have left religion behind, but Yeshua, I keep close. I’ve channeled Him, and He is Love. He loves everyone. He doesn’t care if you’re black, white, brown or purple, if you’re Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Atheist, if your straight, gay, bi, or trans., if you’re a good person or what some would call a sinner. He just loves us, unconditionally, no matter who we are, or even whether or not we’ve ever heard of or rejected Him.
I stated earlier in this article that some of the Angels’ messages don’t necessarily follow some church doctrine, but don’t they? None of the messages I’ve shared suggested that a person or group was unworthy of love or acceptance. On the contrary, the messages are always accepting and hopeful and often defend those others have attacked. So, when “Christians” call on others to persecute some person or group, or to force others to do what they say is right based on their interpretation of the Bible or church doctrine, I have to ask if they even know the Jesus they profess so strongly to follow, because actions speak louder than words, and their actions in no way reflect these basic teachings.
And lest you think I’m being judgmental of them, I remind myself, most times before I get too angry, that they’re just people, like me, trying to find their way. They’re just doing all the wrong things and looking in all the wrong places for salvation and a way to make Jesus happy with them. Regardless of what they or I do, He’s going to love us, anyway, but if you truly believe in Him and want to serve Him, shouldn’t you be following His advice and guidance, rather than someone else’s interpretation of it?
Do unto others … Judge not … Love your neighbor …
So, I’m going to continue to try to remember these things, even though these Christian Nationalists and religious zealots get on my last nerve sometimes. Yeshua loves them, and He tells me I should love them, too. Not just the ones who are nice to me, or the ones who think the same way I do or vote how I vote. They’re all my neighbors, so I have to try to love all of them. Easier said than done, at least for me, but I think trying counts.
We need to start mending some of the bridges between us. It’s not up to one person to make that happen, it’s up to all of us. If we’re waiting for a time when a particular person reaches a position of power, it’s never going to happen. We need to start, each one of us, by at least trying to love our neighbors, no matter who they are or what they believe. We’re only human, and we’re not going to be perfect. We’ll take backward steps from time to time. But trying counts, and practice makes perfect. Whether you believe in, know, or worship Yeshua, surely, we can get behind His message of Love, can’t we, or at least try?
Blessings, all.
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