Kindness

In the Bible kindness and love go hand-in-hand.  When Jesus walked on earth he came to seek those that were lost.  What better way to show kindness than to come and offer your life as a living sacrifice for all?  Jesus did not just come to save those who were his children but he came for that one that spit on him, mocked him, beat him, and accused him of being from the devil and for those who hung him on the cross.  Today, we live in a society where kindness is hard to find.  For us to reach the lost world and our families it is not always going to be easy to turn the other cheek.  Jesus has called us to go out into a lost and dying world and tell them of His love for them.  In 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, we are told that though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.  Charity suffers long, and is kind, does not envy, not puffed up, thinks no evil.  Love covers a multitude of sins.  When we begin to walk in the love of Jesus, those around us will see the transforming power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  Then we will be filled with the Spirit of God as a vessel ready to do His work.  Kindness and love will flow out from us as a river to touch many.  The Holy Spirit will quicken His spirit in our lives to touch that one at the grocery store, that one who has a loved one who has passed away, the one who has cancer, and the one who is dying without Christ.  Let us examine ourselves daily to make sure that we are walking in Kindness and love.