I saw this post on Facebook recently: "I wonder how much jail time I would get if I actually did unto others as they have done unto me!" Hmmm…

No doubt everyone has been wronged in some way in the course of their life: probably many times. And often we would love to think of some revenge for those who have hurt us or maybe have exacted revenge in some way. We like to think ‘karma’ will come back to them. "What comes around, goes around" or so they say.

But what if we turned the phrase around so that we could see ourselves more clearly? "I wonder how much I would suffer if others were to do to me as I have done unto them?"

Changes perspective, doesn’t it? We always obsess on how others have treated us, never once considering what we have done to hurt others. Maybe it was not deliberate; maybe it was. The point is we always see ourselves as the victim, never the villain. We can easily see the wrong done to us, but it takes a closer look at ourselves to admit we are the villain more than the victim.

Life is a two way highway. As we pass others on this road of life, we make note of how we are treated, but do we make note of how we treat them? While Luke 6:31 admonishes to treat people in the way we want to be treated, Jesus went one step further: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you" (John 3:34-35).

The next time you are waiting for ‘karma’, consider what kind of ‘karma’ is waiting for you.