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Deal Justly With Everyone!



There once were two best friends who lived in a poor third world country and one of them flew out to continue with his studies abroad in a successful first world country, while the other remained in his home country and continued with his studies there, he got a degree in Architecture and started his own firm but was not so successful.
So as the years went on the other guy who had gone abroad came back and he was successful and rich so he looked for his old friend and they reunited and exchanged stories about how their lives have been. On learning that his friend was an architect he said to him why don’t you build me a house a good big beautiful mansion in a nice area so his friend agreed and him knowing that his friend knew nothing about building he decided that this is his ‘GOD given opportunity’ to get rich like his friend.
So he decided in his heart that he will just buy the cheap materials and everything at half price and not tell his friend about it he built the house knowing that it will not stand for long even though it was a big and beautiful mansion on the outside it was a weak and useless building on the inside, and he had taken most of the money in his pocket.
And the day came when he was to present to his friend the new house and when they had walked through all the rooms and were standing outside looking at the house his friend took the keys of the house gave them back to his Architect friend and said, “Friend I went abroad and became so successful and now am a multi millionaire with more than enough money and after listening to your story that you were still struggling and had not made as much as I have made in life I decided that I should give you this house so here are the keys” the architect was so shocked and got so weak that his legs could not support him, his friend thought that he was just too surprised with the excitement of getting the house but the real feeling was that he was disappointed with the way he built the house thinking it will be for someone else only for it to turnout to be his, he was disappointed that thinking he was doing injustice to someone else to benefit himself it was just him doing injustice to himself, he was disappointed that he was receiving a good house that will not last for long and if he knew he would have built a stronger house that would last and lastly he was disappointed that he had betrayed a good friendship and he felt so unworthy to receive even a useless house like that from his friend
Moral of the story Do unto others as you would like them do unto you, love your neighbor as you love yourself and always deal justly with everyone even when they do not know or understand what is going on for GOD sees and knows when we have dealt justly and unjustly with our neighbors, friends or family whatever is put to your hands to do, do it with all your heart like it is your own

Be Real!Father and his son

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digrizster 22. December 2008, 18:05

Good Lesson. Reminds me of a story that I read once where an apprentice was learning the Black Smithing trade.

The apprentice was watching the Smith put the finishing touches on the underside of a hitch for a cart. He asked the Smith why he was puting so much effort to an area that no one would ever see. The Smith said: "While it is true that nobody will ever see this part, we live in a small town and every time this cart goes by I will know that I did my best work. And if I did not do my best, it would always sit in my heart, even if I never saw the cart again."

Decisions that we make stay in our hearts, and the bad ones build up callouses that over time make it hard to hear Gods word. I have personal experience here.

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