Kindness is a choice.
"If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." 1 Corinthians 13:3-8 esv
Real love is kind and longsuffering even, free from all weirdness.
Just as patience will put up with much from others, kindness shows a willingness to give anything to another or others if God leads. I mean if He’s inside and leading you He might ask you give something to help someone, but and I'm not saying He'll indeed have you give all you own away. I'm not your Lord.
Jesus is our supreme model of patience and kindness. See Romans 2:4 which says, “Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” (Romans 2:4 nkjv).
You’re a Christian because the Father’s love in Christ has won you over to Him. The goodness of God gently convicted you of sin, and the brought you to repentance. To admitting it and quitting it, the sin, as He forgave, cleansed and regenerated you on the inside.
In the same way, if a kind husband loves his wife as Christ unselfishly loves the church, then the wife will typically respond in love. Just as the church responds to Jesus, a wife will respond to the loving initiative of her husband.
We love Him because He first ..not second.. loved us.
It’s from a basis of love that each of us believers is to show kindness to one another in practical things. For example, when you first started going out with the person who became your wife, you wanted to bless and please her. You took a shower duh! You dressed nicely, you shaved perhaps, and washed and cleaned up your car clearing out all the junk that’s been laying on the seat for a month.
You took off early to meet her parents, and pick her up at her house or at her apartment. You were on time, and opened the door for her. All the doors all evening long. You told how beautiful she looked, and maybe brought her some flowers or a little gift.
And on time you did that stuff a whole lot for her. You wrote her thank you notes and other notes.
“The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.” — George Macdonald
What is lovingkindness in the Bible?
Why is daily prayer kind both upwards and outwards? Why is it important?
What does the Bible mean when it refers to God’s outstretched arm?
What is the relationship between kind grace and truth?
How can we forget not His kind benefits (Psalm 103:2)?
What are the rod and staff in Psalm 23?
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32
“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 3:1–2 (CS)
“Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.” — Thomas Fuller
“Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.” 1 Peter 3:8–9
“The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.” Psalm 145:17
Then you got married and perhaps things might have changed a bit. Do you take her for granted some? Do you still do all those things you did at first for her? Are you still so selfless and kind?
The Bible says of the virtuous woman that “her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her” (Proverbs 31:28 nlt). Men, when was the last time you affirmed, encouraged, and praised your wife? When was the last time you complimented her, got her chair, or her coat, or that door for her? When was the last time you got her a little gift or wrote her a note?
I don’t know why, but it’s generally the nature of us men to suppress emotions and to suppress kind affection. So we have to make a conscious effort to go against the grain of what comes naturally and pray. When we pray the Spirit will lead us to do better. We have to make a conscious effort to show kindness daily.
“Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.” — Alexander MacLaren
You can plant seeds of truth from your own story and from the Word into hearts today. And mixing that with other kindnesses offered can make such a great impact for God's glory -- He will reward you! In the book of Matthew, Jesus tells us, “And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.” (Matt. 10:42)
Scatter seeds of kindness,as today you make your wayyou don’t know just how muchthey could make someone’s day…Disperse some generosity,it can go a long, long wayto energize and cheer upsomeone sad you meet today.Scatter seeds of kindness,let goodwill be what you sowhow they make other’s feelyou may never really know! ~ Deborah Ann (Read more.. blog)
