COSTLY KINDNESS
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Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 8:1-9
You know the grace of our Lord Jesus … that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor …
2 Corinthians 8:9
Kindness is costly.
Our reading today talks about the cost of God’s kindness to us. Jesus set aside all the riches and magnificence of heaven in order to come to us in our need. Our sin had cut us off from God and had left us completely lost in the world, “like sheep without a shepherd” (Matthew 9:36). Seeing our need, Jesus gave up not only the splendor of heaven but, ultimately, his very life.
“I am the good shepherd,” he explained. “The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:11). Jesus willingly set aside all his rights and privileges so that, through him, we might gain access to all that was rightfully his (see Romans 8:17).
If we grow in kindness, then we too will respond in mercy and compassion even though there may be a cost involved.
Doing “random acts of kindness” when we’re in the mood isn’t enough. Kindness calls us to respond even when it might not be convenient or fit our schedule. Kindness calls us to respond even in situations where it might not come easily for us.
To become more like Jesus, we need to be intentional about making ourselves available to others, offering mercy, help, and care to the people whom God places in our lives—even when it costs us.
Prayer
Holy Spirit, enable your kindness to take root and flourish in me. Make me more like Jesus, who, though he was rich, was willing to become poor for my sake. In his name, Amen.
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So powerful a message to me n would to see more of me practicing it…d grace of our Lord,Jesus be with us now and forevermore.amen!
Surely God’s kindness is immeasurable. When we abide in the presence of the Holy Spirit and His Spirit
abideth with us as believers we too have immeasurable kindness. The kind of kindness that thinks not on “if I can I will, or maybe if I have it> Because God provides for us to always have what we and others need when He needs us to be kind to give and supply for other in their lives. With the right heart and mind we can give just like JESUS does with His kindness; our time, money, and even eatable and material things. So Let us daily God thanks unto God for all of His providing that which is continual daily,
In JESUS NAME AMEN! GOD is will to supply if we are willing to apply His LOVE and kindness toward others for others and the GLORY OF GOD ALONE!