Kindness -- The Way of Love

Have you noticed how some people are like vending machines?  If you put forth a token of kindness, you get kindness in return.  There are some, of course, whose “vending machines” are perpetually out-of-order!

 

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 finds its roots in a Godly heart, one that produces acts of kindness that change lives and our world. That makes me think I need to check my own vending machine inventory to what how well it’s stocked!  Kindness -- it's the way of Love.