Today I read 1 Samuel 24 where Saul and David sleep in the same cave by accident. Understandably so, David's men encourage him to kill Saul saying that the Lord has delivered him into his hands. And truly he had been delivered into David's hands. However, David personified the teachings of the Savior of doing good to them that hate you. It is easy to be nice to those that are nice to you, but if you have someone who is rude or mean, or even trying to kill you, it is a lot more difficult to be nice and polite to those people.
Customer service people have this challenge almost daily. We have people being rude to us almost all the time and it is really easy, and would be fair and just, if we were rude and mean back, because most of the time it is unjustified. However, to follow the Savior's teachings, we are supposed to be polite and good to those who are mean to us. It is part of turning the other cheek. When we choose not to retaliate and choose instead to reward evil with good, we are doing as the Savior commanded His people when He walked upon the earth. Imagine if everyone followed that counsel. What a wonderful world it would be. I daresay that eventually we would get to the point where no one was mean or impolite to one another. It would certainly become uncommon. I imagine that is how the millennium will be. It is certainly how the Celestial Kingdom will be. I look forward to those days and times. Until tomorrow.
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