Send The Bread Over The Water

In the Western culture the majority of us recognizes the Golden Rule in one form or another.

We might not be able to pinpoint the exact words or the exact place in the Bible.

But we are familiar with the idea of doing to others what we want them to do for us.

I think most of us consider ourselves as good people.

We try to do good and be nice and fair to the people around us.

But many of us have changed this rule into:

Do good to others if they do it first to you.

Or do to others as they do to you first.

We even have a popular word for it, the Karma Law, it will come back to bite you in the end.

But the Bible talks about sending the bread over the water.

Of doing good before others have the chance to do good to me.

Turn the other cheek, even when it doesn't seem humanely possible.

We are not to do this with our own power.

But by leaving ourselves, and our wills, into His hands.