Three Things You Can Do to Make the World a Better Place

Oscar Crawford, M.Div., MS/AJS

Three Things You Can Do to Make the World a Better Place

Ecclesiastes 3 vss 18 Concerning people, I said to myself, "God is testing them, so that they will see that by themselves they are just animals. 19 After all, the same things that happen to people happen to animals, the very same thing — just as the one dies, so does the other. Yes, their breath is the same; so that humans are no better than animals; since nothing matters, anyway. 20 They all go to the same place; they all come from dust, and they all return to dust. 21 Who knows if the spirit of a human being goes upward and the spirit of an animal goes downward into the earth?" 22 So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person to do than take joy in his activities, that that is his allotted portion; for who can enable him to see what will happen after him?

Matthew 5  vss 43 "You have heard that our fathers were told, 'Love your neighbor[i] — and hate your enemy.' 44 But I tell you, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! 45 Then you will become children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun shine on good and bad people alike, and he sends rain to the righteous and the unrighteous alike. 46 What reward do you get if you love only those who love you? Why, even tax-collectors do that! 47 And if you are friendly only to your friends, are you doing anything out of the ordinary? Even the Goyim do that! 48 Therefore, be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 22 - 33 When the crowds heard how he taught, they were astounded; 34 but when the P'rushim learned that he had silenced the Tz'dukim, they got together, 35 and one of them who was a Torah expert asked a sh'eilah to trap him: 36 "Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?" 37 He told him, "'You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.'[c] 38 This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. 39 And a second is similar to it, 'You are to love your neighbor as yourself.'[d] 40 All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot."

Three Things You Can Do to Make the World a Better Place

1.  Love and Honor the Source of Life - Creator and Creation
2.  Love and Honor Self as Expression of Creator and Creation
3.  Love and Honor Others (the good and the not so good) like Creator and Creation