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KINDNESS IS FROM THE
HEART
I have often
thought to myself "what is the one thing that really draws and keeps
Christians together?" Well, it didn't take me long to think of the word
kindness.
When I think of the word kindness I am also reminded of the passage
in Ephesians 4:32 which reads "And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you." To be kind takes a sincere effort on the part of each
individual. Because of that, when kindness is shown to another, one can
see that the heart of the individual doing the kind deed is the way God
wants it to be. The passage continues to say that we should be
tenderhearted which means to have sympathy or pity for another.
It would be like seeing a little
puppy with a hurt leg limping across a yard, and being moved with
tenderness, you would help fix the puppy's leg so it could heal
properly.
In the same manner we should want to help our brothers and sisters when
they are hurting. When we have a sincere, loving concern for another
individual then we will naturally be a forgiving person. We know that
God loved us so much that He gave His only begotten son for us (John
3:16). God is willing and wants to forgive us as we stumble through
our walk of life, but we must be willing to forgive others first
(Matt 6:14-15). When an individual Christian can grasp the love of
God then the love of God will be able to pour forth from the Christian.
----Richard Thetford |
