Live what you want to receive.

Whatever value we would like others to display towards us is the value we ought to display.

For example, would you like people to be loyal? You be loyal.

Would you like people to be forgiving? You be forgiving.

Would you like to be heard? Listen.

Would you like to receive love? Love.

On and on and on...

If you value the quality, exhibit it.

Here's the deal: we cannot control what any other single soul does and we will go crazy trying. What we can do is take responsibility for ourselves and our own actions and attitudes.

Complaining about what others do or don't do will burn up precious emotional energy that could be being spent doing what we ourselves say we value.

We were made to do good works. The Apostle Paul said, "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:10 ESV)

If we value a quality of character, certain actions, or long to receive something good, we must see it first and foremost as what we are being called to be and do.

God causes us to value it that we might come to be it.