Kindness, another abstract, something that you know very well, and have too much difficulty describing. Chrastotais (kray-stot-ays), in Greek, can also be translated gentleness. And something that we are way to short on as a people is gentleness. In other words, you don't have to smack someone around to make a point. Amiable, a marked absence of harshness, in the way that we deal with others. Harsh, I find, is an easy reputation to get, and extremely difficult to shed. The exercising of kindness, is the idea of governing our responses in consideration of the feeling of others.
Is it not the gentleness of children that so deeply wins our hearts affection for them? Didn't our Lord say that the kingdom of God belongs to such as these? There is a sweetness in the way that they interact with us. There is a gentleness about them. So tiny, yet their influence as powerful as an ocean wave. In consideration of this, is it any wonder that we are sometimes ineffective in our ministering to others, when we bulldoze the shack that they are living in, and then tell them to build a proper house? Have we forgotten kindness, gentleness? God helping us we can get them back, and again be an effective witness for Him. God bless you all.
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