Kindness is the fifth Gift of the Spirit listed in Galatians
5:22. It is a characteristic which has
to do with our relationships with others.
It is the way we express love to our family and others. When we love someone we want to treat them
with Kindness and we want others to treat us kindly.
Kindness, generosity, and mercy are the heart of God’s
nature. Christ gave Himself for our
sins. Because of what Jesus did for us,
when we receive Him and His Holy Spirit, this nature of Kindness begins to grow
in our human spirit. In our human nature
we are all deficient, flawed, and weak.
No one has “arrived” spiritually.
As we yield to the Holy Spirit, He grows our spirit developing the
virtue of Kindness within us.
Isaiah 54:10 says, “ ‘For the mountains shall depart and the
hills be removed but my kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall my
covenant of peace be removed’, says the Lord who has mercy on you”. As a believer, I experience God’s peace and
His Kindness (Blessings and Favor) in my life.
Our Lord and Savior was kind and our Father requires us to
be kind and merciful. He gave us His
Holy Spirit to enable us to grow in Kindness and mercy toward others. In
Matthew 5:7 Jesus says, “Blessed are the merciful (kind) for they shall
obtain mercy”. Our Kindness and mercy
toward others will in someway come back to us.
We are not to be kind for that which we want to receive in return. We are to be kind to others because Kindness
and mercy have now become our nature and our natural loving response to
others. We look for no reward from the
person to whom we showed kindness. An
example of this unselfish kindness is seen in the parable of The Good Samaritan
in Luke 10: 30-37. The Good Samaritan
showed the wounded traveler unconditional kindness. This is the Kindness and mercy which the Holy
Spirit is working on perfecting in our lives.
Come Holy Spirit Come! Perfect your gift of Kindness in my spirit. Thank you, Lord.
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