Kindness

Have you noticed how some people are like vending machines?  Put in a token of kindness and you get a token of kindness back.  Then sometimes you put in a token and get nothing back – yeah, the vending machine is just broke.

The Love Chapter says, "love ... is kind." (1 Corinthians 13:4) Kindness is not always automatic or easy.  Satan would have us rather embrace an unkindness-for-unkindness approach to living.  In his book, "Uncommon Graces," John Vawter lists kindness as an uncommon grace and writes, "Kindness is not a character quality buried deep in our lives that we have to excavate. It's not something we build one brick at a time. More accurately, it is grown within us by the work of the Holy Spirit." Genuine kindness originates in a Godly heart and produces acts of kindness that change lives and situations. That makes me think I need to check my own vending machine inventory, and see how it’s stocked with the Grace of God’s Kindness.  It's ... The Way of Love.