Kindness is something you don’t find much in our world today.
The Bible speaks about kindness many times. Kindness is one of the fruit of the Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5:22.
The dictionary says kindness is being considerate, or helpful. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if everyone treated each other with kindness?
It usually doesn’t take a lot to be kind. Sometimes I think we make it to hard, when something so simple and easy as a genuine smile can brighten someone’s day. Being polite and kind to others can sometimes be just what they need to make their day. Holding the door for someone, letting them go ahead of you in line, smiling and saying hello, you never know.
The little, everyday things we can do to show others kindness can be a seed planted in their lives that will one day grow and help lead them to Christ.
These days it seems we even have a hard time with Christians treating each other with kindness. We want to fight and argue over our views and interpretations and forget that as Christians, we all have the common ground of faith in Christ.
A friend of mine recently talked about relationships and how they seem to come to an end. He said it was based on what the relationship was about. If it is based on some thing or activity, once we get tired of that particular thing and move on, all the relationships based on that activity usually come to an end. Only the common ground of faith in Christ and His grace is what doesn’t change and the one thing that can hold together a friendship.
Let’s see if we can make a point to do one act of kindness each day. You never know where it may lead.
When I used to go to church, this happened to me. It’s as if they felt jaded that I didn’t go to the same church even though we are all “the church” when we have Christ. It is the one thing I dislike about institutional churches. When you are without an IC, you realize there are no boundaries. You are free to live and love others. It is sad how often i’ve lost friends because I changed schools, jobs, or churches. Even my own family has refused relationship with me despite the blood relation. The closest people to me are the ones that have the love of Jesus in them and proritize that bond in Christ. Without him, we all lack true friendships.
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Good comment Elle. Thank you.
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“A friend of mine recently talked about relationships and how they seem to come to an end. He said it was based on what the relationship was about. If it is based on some thing or activity, once we get tired of that particular thing and move on, all the relationships based on that activity usually come to an end. Only the common ground of faith in Christ and His grace is what doesn’t change and the one thing that can hold together a friendship.”
Dear brother – in this you are correct and it is very sad and troubling to me. For I am have been in a “moving on” phase for quite some time now, and it seems as I move on from this or that focus, there are those who I thought were my friends, they even called me brother – they stop communicating mysteriously.
So I am left wondering if they truly care anything about me personally, for just myself, not as an echo or sounding board for them.
This basis of relationship is wrong. Families don’t relate because they all agree. They have one thing in common, and that is blood. Yet for many, the blood of Christ is not enough to bind us together. We must share there ideas, their doctrines, their focus, their methods, and on and on.
In the end however, this reveals what they truly love. Many, for example, love the Bible or their group more than the Lord or His blood-bought people. This is very, very sad.
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So true Wayne, it sadly is true, even among ‘christians’, if we don’t agree in doctrine or interpretation, we don’t want anything to do with one another. That is not the way it should be. We should love and accept each other in Christ, even if we agree to disagree on our thoughts and beliefs. Thanks for the good comment.
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