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'MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO [SHOW]...KINDNESS.' 2 PETER 1:5-7
Have you noticed that the busier you get the meaner you get? That's
because kindness (the opposite of mean-ness) is a 'fruit of the
Spirit,' it grows in your life as you spend time with God (Galatians
5:22). Kindness doesn't grow as the result of listening to a good
preach you downloaded from iTunes. You have to practice it. You have to
do what Peter says: 'Make every effort to [show]...kindness.'
One morning William McKinley was riding to his office on a tram. A sick
woman got on and couldn't find a seat so she hung onto an overhead
strap next to one of McKinley's political colleagues. Pathetically this
guy hid behind his newspaper to avoid giving up his seat. Immediately
McKinley gave her his seat and took her place in the aisle. Years later
when McKinley had become President of the USA this same colleague was
recommended for the position of ambassador but McKinley refused. He
said, 'If his kindness is of the quality he showed that morning on the
tram, I fear what he might do representing us in a foreign land.' The
disappointed politician never did find out why McKinley chose someone
else for the job.
What good is it to be really busy if it's all to help yourself? Face
it; without kindness what good are all our titles, traditions and
testimonies? If you don't know the answer here it is: 'If I had the
gift of prophecy and knew all about...the future, knew everything about
everything, but didn't love others, what good would it do?' (1
Corinthians 13:2 TLB). So today, make up your mind to practice kindness!
written by Bob Gass
