Reverse Law

The golden rule states that do to others what you’d like them to do to you! (Matt 7:12) This applies to both ends of the scale.

Let me elucidate:

In 2021, when I was short of university tuition, a friend of mine; Joan, lent me 1.5 million. I had thought I’d be in position to pay back when the Headmaster of my former school ordered for my books; but that deal took another whole year before it’d go through. I sat for my exams, thanks to her.

I had only paid 200k of that, when she canceled the debt later on in the year! I was overwhelmed. And I thanked God.

The wisdom in this, is; I can always look back at this and base on it to forgive financial debts as well. Recently many people owed me money. I’d offered some editorial services to them and some had cleared whilst others hadn’t. In total, I was owed about 700k.

God asked me to let it go. And whenever I found it hard, He reminded me of Joan. Trust me, it was way quicker and easier than I had imagined, and I am sure, if Joan never waived hers, it’d have been a struggle for me to ‘let it go.’

The law stated that we should do to others what we’d like them to do us. I am in no debt as of now, and I’m not getting into one any time soon.

Forgiving that I might be forgiven what I owe doesn’t make sense. However, when I understand that I was forgiven once, it obliges me almost naturally to do so even if it is someone different I am forgiving. This is the reverse law (or law(s) in reverse).

It is very foolish not to forgive if you have been forgiven. That parable from the Bible gives us a one who was so. He was forgiven 10000 bags of gold (according to the NIV; Matthew 18) by the king that he owed, but later, he went and assaulted another who owed him 100 bags of silver! It displeased the king when he heard of it; and so he threw him in prison too.

Sometimes you’d be forgiven only 1 million, and the person God’s asking you to forgive could be owing 5! Still, this would apply, lest you say the story is about forgiving only those that you owed less than the highest amount you’ve ever been forgiven! The bottom line is purification of our hearts through God’s refinery.

Jesus acted in reverse law when He died for you and loved you while you were yet even unborn! He died for those that came before Him as well! That we all might love Him back! If you receive His love in this manner, you become the loved: the beneficiary in this equation.

Now it’d be wicked for you not to love your enemy, yet you were Jesus’ enemy once upon a time. And if, … if you’ve accepted Jesus’ love, regardless of how unworthy you believe you were, then that’s the same way your enemy will feel if you love them on (unless they are foolish). If you don’t, then forget them repenting. Don’t you know that it is this kind of goodness that will make them repent!

Don’t you know that when you forgive it doesn’t help them, but you — who receives a standing ovation and promotion from the Father for obeying His precepts!?

Don’t you know that when you feel you have too little is when Heaven asks you to give it and not hoard; for in giving it, is when it will multiply and return overflowing in your lap?

This is the wisdom of God; in reverse law; seeming always contradictory to what is present!

And only those that are obedient … and are willing, shall eat of the fruit thereof, that God has set as reward.