Apr 1, 2025 … Kindness Always Wins …

Apr 1, 2025 … Kindness Always Wins …  

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

…  Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Steven Curtis Chapman singing … Kindness,  proclaiming how God blesses those who extend His kindness and love to others.

Sharing God's Kindness with Others .. 

Highlight Passage: … 1Peter 3:8 …[NLT] … 

8 Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.            

…  Peter calls fellow Christians to show humility and the kindness of God’s love to one another.               

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1Peter 3:8-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  Peter quotes from <b><u>Psalm 34:12-16</b></u> about King David being blessed by God’s kindness as David was trying to escape King Saul’s wrath.                                                  

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

… Solomon shows that God rewards those who show kindness to one another. 

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

…  Luke extends Jesus’ teaching that as His ambassadors, we Christians are to extend Godly love and kindness to others just as The Lord did by dying for our sins.   

Reference Passage: … Romans 2:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…  Paul exhorts fellow Christians to extend God’s love and kindness to others just as God does for (us) sinners.  

Reference Passage: …  Galatians 5:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul teaches fellow Christians that God extends His fruitfulness, inclining His kindness to those who surrender themselves to follow Christlikeness.  

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

… Paul calls on fellow Christians to be kind to one another just as The Lord has been kind to all  who surrender to receive God’s love and grace.

Reference Passage: …  Titus 3:4-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows Titus - and all Christians - how Christ showed His kindness and love by offering Himself to wash away the sins of all who surrender to receive His saving grace.

                        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Arthur Jackson  … AT THIS LINK       … related the true story of a 10 year old white girl who recalled how kind her father treated an old black man who was seated next to her father and her on the day Jackie Robinson played in his first game in Philadelphia, where her dad carried on a friendly and welcoming conversation with the son of slaves.  And the young girls’ dad gave her a lesson in kindness she remembered all her life.     

And most certainly today’s ODB entry, as well as the linked song and God’s word that I’ve shared above, call all of us to show God’s love and kindness with others today.  So, .. I’ll be looking to do that today as God gives me opportunity.   How about you?   

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for giving my Your love and enabling grace today to share with others.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  to take any opportunity You give us, Lord, to share your kindness with others today.   … AMEN

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