I love this piece from page 56 of Richard Templar’s book “The Rules of Life”: Every action you take, every decision you make, everything you do causes an immediate effect on those around you – and on you. And this is the important bit. There’s such a thing as instant karma. It is your bed and you are going to have to lie on it. Your actions will dictaste whether in general your life is going to run happily or badly, smoothly or as if the wheels have fallen off. If you are selfish and manipulative, it will rebound on you . If you are generally loving and thoughtful, you will get your just rewards – and not in heaven (0r the next life or whatever you believe) but right here, right now. Trust me. Whatever you do and how you do it will come back to you in spades. This isn’t a threat, merely an observation. Those wo do good, get good. Those who do bad get bad.”
From my personal experiences in life, I have come to agree with Temple's postulation that what you sow is surely what you will reap. Work hard, you will stand before kings and not before mean men. Be lazy you will tend to poverty. Be kind to people, people will be kind to you. People will always not only remember what you do to them, they will pay you back in your coins. It is a reality of life. I have tasted it. It works. I gave love to people in diverse ways: cash and kind, counsel and inspiration plus motivation, they returned love to me in greater measure. Remarkably, once upon a time, for eight consecutive years, the ship of my life drifted in the mid-ocean heading towards a wreck! Miraculously, God raised people to rescue me. These people remembered my good deeds and felt the ship of my life must never sink. They willingly (without even solicitation) allowed themselves to be used by God (thanks to members of my helpers forum in WhatsApp l) to rescue me. However, whenever I related my experiences to people on how I have been blessed by people, such people always reminded me thus, “you deserve what you are getting because you’ve done so much for people” Whereas I honestly thought and believed I hadn’t done enough! I thank God, in my little way, I did what I knew best to do – good - (And I have resolved that for the rest of my life I shall engage my total being in doing good for my generation and the generations yet unborn. I am going to leave a legacy of doing good for my descendants from generation to generation.) I thank God and people for returning my good-for-good. Brethren, let me admonish you with this golden piece from Phil. 4:8-9, “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do…” There’s a great reward for doing good or bad. I urge you DO GOOD to God and to Man.
