Life & Death Haikus: Do Right By Others (Original Poem)

verbal-d (71)in #poetry • 7 years ago (edited)

Please mistreat no one
Careful of those that you do
You know not their role...

God can possibly use the person you bullied to save your life to humble you and show you how to be loving and merciful to your neighbours. Or maybe that person you mistreated holds the key to an opportunity which you were meant for. You just never know, but the selfless aspect of this lesson is, do right because of righteousness and not for the sole reason that such people you would have mistreated could possibly be a help to you in your own endeavours. Life is not so clear cut as that.

"But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,"
(King James Version Bible - Book Luke: Chapter 6: Verse: 27)

Regarding Jesus Christ, Our Lord & Saviour)

"15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."
(King James Version Bible - Book John: Chapter 3: Verse: 15-21)