In writing about the “judge not” part of the Sermon On The Mount, Emmet Fox says “The good that we do to others we shall receive back in like measure.”
I have found that this isn’t entirely true. It’s not that I receive anything back in the conventional sense of “If I do a good thing to someone, they’ll will then do a separate a good thing back to me.” It’s close, but not quite it.
It’s not that DOING good unto others results in good being done unto me. I find that sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. And sometimes I can do good unto others and experience downright BAD being done unto me.
That’s because it’s not in the DOING, it’s in the THINKING and BELIEVING.
When I THINK and BELIEVE good unto others then, in all the ways I can confirm, they ARE good. …to me.
Immediately. Every time.
The same acts.
The exact things I had erroneously believed to be “bad” done unto me, instantly become “good” done unto me. All with a shift in what I’m thinking and believing about the other person.