March 20th, 2012

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Treatment

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Some say I need treatment of the mental kind.  Not funny.  🙂

I recently had minor surgery to remove a mucous cyst on my finger between my knuckle and fingernail.  I had to go back to have the packing removed and receive a splint AND some treatment (therapy).

I go to a chiropractor more than I would like (twice a month).  Each time I go I receive an adjustment (treatment…and I love the massage).

All that to say…wipe that idea of treatment out of your mind for this post.  😀  Thanks.  Now, put your mind onto another plane.  You are Zaccheus.  Jesus has healed many people who were unable to see Him perform the miracle (blind man), but Zaccheus was the victim of a cruel joke.  He couldn’t ask Jesus to cure him of his affliction.  There is absolutely no scriptural evidence for healing the short.  Sorry to do that to all the short people who are reading this.  Besides, short is all in the mind.  You may actually be the normal ones.  It is the 6’5″ ones (like yours truly) who may be the abnormal ones.  See…told you I needed treatment.   But Zac had bigger problems that height.  I read that it could be argued that it was easier to make a short man tall than a tax collector (politician) likable, or honest.  Do you think that applies today?  I’m just saying….  🙂

Jesus’ treatment for Zac was not to chop him up one side and down the other.  No, His treatment was, “Zac, come on down.  I’m going to your house today.”  It was after his encounter with Jesus that Zac changed.  Other than being despised by everyone, he had no other afflictions that we know of.  Jesus doesn’t say, “Zac, come on down and I will cure your ‘crossed-finger’ syndrome or your ‘turn-a-blind-eye’ syndrome.”  You see…Jesus did not treat Zac like he treated others.  He didn’t cheat him.  He didn’t lie to him.  He didn’t get even with him.  He didn’t play favorites.  He didn’t overcharge him.

I was speaking with someone today (Tuesday) who said, “I know I have to forgive.”  I said, “You are absolutely right.  If you don’t, then you are their slave.”  We need to consider those whom we come in contact with and look at how we treat them.  Do we treat them with disdain?  Do we treat them with hostility?  Do we treat them with anger?  Do we treat them with a get-even attitude?  Do we treat them with a “I’m not even going to give you a chance to get my other cheek” approach?  Or we do do what Jesus did?  Check out His suggestions here and here.  Enough for now.  Reckon I better go and practice what I preach.  🙂

What are your thoughts?  How do treat others?