Oct 14 2024 … Try A Little Kindness

Oct 14 2024 …  Try A Little Kindness 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  

… Please take time to hear Glen Campbell, with music and lyrics, singing Try A Little Kindness calling on all of us to do more to help others by sharing kindness with those who need a little help in life.    

Sharing some love and kindness with others ... 

Highlight Verse: … Ruth 2:11  [NLT] … 

11 “Yes, I know,” Boaz replied. “But I also know about everything you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband. I have heard how you left your father and mother and your own land to live here among complete strangers. … 

… Boaz encourages Ruth to accept his kindness as Ruth did for his relative, Naomi.       

Highlight Passage (in context): … Ruth 2:1-2, 5-11  … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  Boaz reaches out with kindness to help Ruth gather grain from his fields.                                

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 11:17, 31:26  … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  Wisdom from Solomon on dispensing kindness to others.    

Reference Passage: … Luke 6:35  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus commands His followers to do good, sharing kindness, with even with their (our) enemies just as God is kind with them (us).                                       

Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:22, 6:10 [NLT] …  USE THIS Link …   

 … The Apostle Paul charges fellow Christians to reach out with the fruit of the Spirit, sharing God’s love and kindness with others.   

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:32 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…   The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to be kind and forgiving to one another just as Jesus as been forgiving to them (us).              

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…   Paul repeatedly calls on fellow Christians too share Christlike mercy and kindness with others.      

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 4:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  The Apostle Peter shows to fellow Christians to show deep love (i.e., KINDNESS) with others.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Alyson Kieda -  AT THIS LINK  -shared how she was deeply impacted by the kindness of one her mother’s hospice nurses when her mom was was nearing death and needing constant care.  The nurse gently and lovingly administered kindness and compassionate care for the ODB author’s mother, which - to this day remembering the nurse’s kindness - brings our ODB author to tears.             

Can my readers remember a time when someone showed deep and sincere - Christlike - love and kindness from another?  Perhaps God will give us the opportunity to share some kindness with somebody today.  Let’s all pray for it; … and then share it, …  if the opportunity comes, .. maybe even, as Christ taught, with our enemies.     

My THANKFULNES: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … Help me to be discerning and committed to share a little kindness with someone today, as Glen Campbell sang in the linked song.    

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to watch out for Your opportunities to share a little kindness with others … maybe today.       … Amen

 

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