Day Eighteen: Give Kindness

Give … Kindness

She said, "Oh sir, such grace, such kindness--I don't deserve it. You've touched my heart, treated me like one of your own. And I don't even belong here!" Ru 2:13

Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God. 1Pe 2:2

So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Col 3:12

Romans 2:4 tells us that it is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance. His mercy and unchanging love urge us toward him and compel us to lay all before him. As Christ’s sacrifice opens to door to heaven, we are greeted by a heavenly Abba-father.

But sometimes our human understanding gets in the way because our belief about what is kindness does not comes from God’s word, but merely from our personal experience. Have you ever tried to show kindness by telling the truth in love only to be met with judgment and attitude?

A great many in the world feel that Christian kindness does all things for all people all the time. But God’s kindness is not a Santa-Clause, genie-in-a-bottle-grant your-every-wish type of kindness, but a kindness rooted in holy righteousness, divine love, and eternal purpose. “Drinking deep of God’s pure kindness” will fill us with holy kindness and will clothe and equip us to do good works.

Father-God, your kindness draws me close and wraps around me. I lean into your compassion embrace, stretch out my arms, and invite the world in.