Hello Everyone,
Today's topic is love is kind.
OK this one should be a no brainer right? We all know what it is to be kind. My wife teaches kindergarten and she teaches her kids everyday to be kind to each other. If I asked some of her five year old children to define kindness, they could. The would tell me that kindness is being nice to a friend or kindness is sharing your blocks with another kid. They might say kindness is letting someone get in line in front of you.
They would be right about those being acts of kindness and acts of love. Notice again that this is an action. It's not a feeling. When we are kind to people, it makes us feel good but the kindness itself isn't a feeling. Already we know that love is an act of the will because kindness is an act of our will. We make a decision to do something kind for someone else. As a matter of fact, I am plotting an act of kindness right now and it feels good. I am really going to enjoy myself tomorrow doing what I have planned. I'm excited about it.
So here's the slight change the Lord showed me about kindness this week. Did you know the Bible says Love is patient and love is kind? Now I have always taken those two things to be separate things. In other words, Love is patient. In a completely unrelated event, Love is kind. But what I am just getting a grasp on is what happens if we combine the two at the same time.
In other words, what would happen if while I was being patient with someone and waiting on them to change or do something I want, etc., I do a kind act to that person or in that situation. As I said last time, patience creates the space Love needs to grow and work. If that's true, kindness is a fertilizer that helps love grow. While you are waiting on your friend to apologize or your spouse to change, you are being patient and that's showing love. Now take the next step and fertilize that situation/person with an act of kindness. It will help you be patient and it will help the situation grow.
Remember this, every time you do an act of kindness, you are operating in Love which means you are operating in God.
An that's another Opinion of the Minion
Today's topic is love is kind.
OK this one should be a no brainer right? We all know what it is to be kind. My wife teaches kindergarten and she teaches her kids everyday to be kind to each other. If I asked some of her five year old children to define kindness, they could. The would tell me that kindness is being nice to a friend or kindness is sharing your blocks with another kid. They might say kindness is letting someone get in line in front of you.
They would be right about those being acts of kindness and acts of love. Notice again that this is an action. It's not a feeling. When we are kind to people, it makes us feel good but the kindness itself isn't a feeling. Already we know that love is an act of the will because kindness is an act of our will. We make a decision to do something kind for someone else. As a matter of fact, I am plotting an act of kindness right now and it feels good. I am really going to enjoy myself tomorrow doing what I have planned. I'm excited about it.
So here's the slight change the Lord showed me about kindness this week. Did you know the Bible says Love is patient and love is kind? Now I have always taken those two things to be separate things. In other words, Love is patient. In a completely unrelated event, Love is kind. But what I am just getting a grasp on is what happens if we combine the two at the same time.
In other words, what would happen if while I was being patient with someone and waiting on them to change or do something I want, etc., I do a kind act to that person or in that situation. As I said last time, patience creates the space Love needs to grow and work. If that's true, kindness is a fertilizer that helps love grow. While you are waiting on your friend to apologize or your spouse to change, you are being patient and that's showing love. Now take the next step and fertilize that situation/person with an act of kindness. It will help you be patient and it will help the situation grow.
Remember this, every time you do an act of kindness, you are operating in Love which means you are operating in God.
An that's another Opinion of the Minion
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