KINDNESS

 

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

 

KINDNESS

 

Eph 4:31-32

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

 

          Kindness is so rare these days that when we see it or experience it we are brought to tears. The word in the Greek is chrestos which basically means “to be usefully employed; gracious and good.”

 

          Naomi rejoiced when Ruth told her of the kindness of Boaz who ordered his harvesters to drop “handfuls of grain intentionally” so that Ruth might gather an apron full. You can read it for yourself in Ruth 2:20.

 

          Kindness is doing the unexpected, good thing. It is the much-maligned police officer who, in the morning hours, finishes his shift by buying a homeless woman a breakfast at a fast-food drive through. Kindness is the fast-food clerk who refuses to allow that same officer to pay for the food. Kindness is sitting with that homeless lady while she sits eating her food. He talks with her as if she were “normal” and not homeless. Kindness is driving her to a homeless shelter and bidding her good fortune.

 

Let me be a little kinder

Let me be a little blinder

To the faults of those about me

Let me praise a little more

Let me be when I am weary

Just a little bit more cheery

Think a little more of others

And a little less of me

Glen Campbell

 

Prov 3:26

27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

 

Lord, while others are cursing the darkness, let me shine a light. AMEN