Oct 26 2025 … Kindness to Others …

Oct 26 2025 … Kindness to Others  … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from Jason Gray,  singing Be Kind, … calling on Christians to show kindness to one another.

Be kind to one another ... 

Highlight Passage: … 2Samuel 9:13  … [NLT] … 

13 And Mephibosheth, who was crippled in both feet, lived in Jerusalem and ate regularly at the king’s table. 

… David shows kindness to the last remain heir to the house of Saul, the son of Jonathan, David’s beloved friend.   

Highlight Passage in Context:  2Samuel 1-7. 13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David shows Godly kindness to Mephibosheth, the crippled son of Jonathan.    

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

… Solomon calls on all believers to reach out and help another who is in need of help..

Reference Passage: … Micah 6:8  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Micah, calls on all who follow the ways of the Lord to reach out in kindness and help those in need. 

Reference Passage: … Luke 6:31  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus declares to HIs followers what we call His “Golden Rule” of reaching out to help others as we would desire for others to help us if we were in need.

Reference Passage: … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus commands His disciples in the upper room to love others as He has demonstrated His love for them, which would show the world of God’s love.   

Reference Passage: …  Romans 12:9-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

…   Paul teaches and exhorts Christians to show kindness in helping fellow Christians and others.

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

…   And the Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to reach out in kindness and help each other as our Lord has helped them (us).

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author,  John Blase  …  USE THS LNK -        …  relates a scene from Frederick Buechner’s historical novel Brendan, where the character Gildas, is an amputee.  And during his interaction with Brendan, the main character, Gildas falls and is saved from injury by Brendan, who declares, in doing so to save Gildas from injury, … “To lend each other a hand when we’re falling. Perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.”

And this reference to the character Brendan helping Gildas in the novel reminded the ODB author today of the true Bible story of King David’s kindness in sparing his friend Jonathan’s crippled son, Mephibosheth, found in today’s highlight passage.   In David’s era, that kind of kindness was a highly unusual outreach of kindness, illustrating what is taught in the Scriptures above as the way all Christians should act to one another, showing Godly when other need it … ALWAYS.  

Personally I could do more to show Christlike kindness to others; …how about you? 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord …for showing me how I should be kind to others ALWAYS.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... Thank You, Lord, for being our model of kindness to others.   … Amen

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