What Would Jesus Do. Original right? *insert sarcasm*
But sarcasm aside, this is a very important question that everyone can ask themselves when they go to act or speak or ...do anything really. Thing is, this is often hard to remember and sometimes hard to apply in daily life.
If you happened to be going out for dinner at one of those fancy restaurants that have 3 different forks, and you’ve never had etiquette classes, you may not know exactly what to do with them, (which fork can be used for which course of the meal and all that). however you would know what not to do - like use a spoon to cut your chicken, or to eat your food right off a knife.
The same thing can be applied to WWJD. You may not know what exactly Jesus would do, but you probably know what Jesus wouldn’t do.
Suppose you’re out and walking by a playground and you see a child has been pushed over by another child. Naturally most people would be upset or angry that one child had pushed another down. Uncertain of what to do you ask yourself What would Jesus do? Go comfort the pushed child? Calmly speak to the other child about what he did was wrong? Perhaps one or both. But maybe it’s easier to think What wouldn’t Jesus do. He certainly wouldn’t get mad and yell at the child (though it may seem like a natural response) and He wouldn’t tell the child that he’s a bad kid, or think that the child’s parents didn’t raise him very well. When thinking of the two sides of WWJD it may be easier to figure out what to do, or what not to do.
So have you ever thought of WWJD as what wouldn’t Jesus do?
