Immeasurable

Have you ever used your fingers to measure distance on a map?  The space between one town and the next is often very misleading.  "Why, it can't be that far" are surely words of navigational terror!

Hannah More wrote, "a small unkindness is a great offence."  How true!  How can we possibly measure the long-lasting, far-reaching effects of even one unkind act?  We cannot see beyond what is visible into the hidden parts of another person's heart and spirit.  Romans 12:10 says, "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love."  Our usefulness to God is hindered, perhaps destroyed, by disobedience to this command. However small, however seemingly insignificant, an act of brotherly love shown in kindness to another renders immeasurable results.