As you travel through life, never make mockery of others. Growing up, I thought mocking others was fun but I am old now and I have realized that it demoralizes the person being mocked.

It is not everybody who can stand mockery. If you are better than someone, he or she may be better than you in something else. No one is perfect and what proves this is that your weaknesses are someone’s strengths and vice versa.

If you see a deficiency in someone, do not condemn him; he or she is the image of God. Respect everybody and always be ready to find out why certain situations arise and try to understand from other people’s point of view because everybody is going through something you have no idea of. That is why certain things you see as basic cannot be basic to someone.

God sees everybody useful in His eyes. The fact that others cannot do what you easily do does not make them useless. It is prudent to study some of these deficiencies in others to educate ourselves on how to treat such people because life goes in circles. What you do to someone today may be done to you tomorrow in a similar manner but your experience may be worse. Always try to put yourself in someone’s shoes before you act.

Matthew 7:12 says; “Do unto others what you want others to do unto you.” It is that simple. If you want to be respected, respect others. If you are reasonable, others will be reasonable with you. If you don’t forgive, you will not be forgiven.

We are all created in the image and likeness of God irrespective of how you perceive anyone. You are lucky to have all your body parts intact. You may be lucky to be beautiful physically, thank God for that. However, if someone does not look the way you expect them to look, it is not their fault that they are like that. It may sometimes look funny but making mockery of them is not the best thing to do because that is an image of God.

Do you know what will happen to you or your loved one in the future? Anything can happen to change your looks. Mind you, accidents and sicknesses change people totally. Do not wait to be a victim before you realize how bad mockery is. Certain things we do takes the protection of God from us. Sometimes, God Himself punish us for making mockery of others but we don’t realize it because we are always busy blaming the devil for every bad thing that happens in our lives, forgetting our bad deeds could result to that.

I had some friends I used to move with in school and there was a lady who did not look that nice. My friend would make a bad comment whenever we saw her and we will also laugh. Not knowing we were making fun of the image of God. Do not joke with the image of God and for reasons unknown to my friends and I, we never had the grades we desired. Not too long after, my friend had cancer and died later. We all had our fair share of the punishment. One day as I was praying for my friend, the Holy Spirit told me that she got that because of the comments she made about that lady in school. She asked for forgiveness but she did not recover. What you do now is a seed you are planting which you will reap in the future, so plant good seeds.

Do not give up if you are being mocked now. Do not look down on yourself. It is to strengthen you. If what you are being mocked with is something you cannot change, do not let it affect you. God is looking for people like you to glorify himself in. There may be something in you they do not have. Just allow God to bring it out in His own time.