Try a little kindness

https://odb.org/2024/10/14/simple-acts-of-kindness

There is a Glen Campbell song I sang quite often when growing up, “Try a little kindness.” https://youtu.be/MvswocNN-g8?si=CE9uWhwApWZ7R-Dt

Verse: If you see your brother standing by the road. With a heavy load from the seeds, he sowed. And if you see your sister falling by the way. Just stop and say, “You’re going the wrong way.”
Chirus: You’ve got to try a little kindness
Yes, show a little kindness.
Just shine your light for everyone to see.
And if you try a little kindness.
Then you’ll overlook the blindness.
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.
Verse: Don’t walk around the down and out. Lend a helping hand instead of doubt.
And the kindness that you show every day
Will help someone along their way.

As Christians, we can not avoid being kind. Not only is it one of the 9 attributes of the fruit of the Spirit, but our Lord is by nature kind and compassionate. As we carry His name as Christians (Christianos in Greek, meaning “little anointed ones” or “little Christ”), it is impossible for us not to be kind. It is not unusual to hear about nasty Christians as we are still human, but it is uncommon. A nasty Christian is actually quite an oxymoron. It is an incompatible statement as there should only be kind believers of Jesus Christ.

When Ruth asked Boaz why he was so kind to her that he asked her to only glean exclusively at his farm, and he had instructed his workers to purposely leave behind more for her, Boaz answered because he heard of her kindness leaving her land and people to be with her mother in law in a foreign land after her husband died.

Ruth 2:10-11 NIV –

10 At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favour in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?” 11 Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.

The thing is, as demonstrated by Scripture, kindness begets kindness. If we are kind, people will be kind to us too. God will be happy with us for properly reflecting His glory in our lives, and we, in return, receive kindness from others. That is surely a win-win situation! Why then would we want to be a nasty Christian?

Try a little kindness. Show a little kindness.  Just shine your light for everyone to see. Then, you’ll overlook the blindness of the narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets. Praise the Lord!