In Everything

"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the prophets" (Matthew 7:12).

I was struck by the introductory phrase of Matthew 7:12: "in everything". I'm familiar with "rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks(1 Thessalonians 5:16-19). But I hadn't thought about the extent that I must consider others. I must consider them "in everything".

It's not that I don't think about others, but my "thinking of others" is not an all pervasive habit. It's more like a in "many things" or in "some things" do to others like I would want them to do for me way of looking at life.

I like what one of the members of my Sabbath School class, Nikki C. said last Sabbath. She said, "A good day is when I don't think about myself." I'll go with her on that and add, "A good day is when I think constantly of others."