Kindness: You Have Been Met With It

Three days in, some of you may be feeling the weight of this week.

Kindness sounded like the easier fruit. Softer than patience. Gentler than self-control. And then you tried to actually extend it to someone difficult yesterday, and realized it costs something after all.

Here is what today is for.

Today is not about asking more of you. It is about reminding you what has already been spent on you.

Read the verse.

“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.” - Titus 3:4-5

Paul does not call it generosity. He does not call it mercy, though mercy is in the next line. He calls it kindness.

The kindness of God appeared.

Think about that phrase for a minute. God did not come in judgment. He did not come in power. He came, in Jesus, as kindness showing up. Kindness that walked into rooms full of the wrong kind of people. Kindness that healed on days that were not convenient. Kindness that kept extending itself to the ones who kept getting it wrong.

That kindness has already been extended to you.

Before you were tidy. Before you were sorry. Before you could articulate your need for it. The kindness of God appeared, and it was for you.

If you are tired from three days of trying to be kind, this is where you rest. You are not the source. You never were. You are the downstream. Kindness happens in you because it happened to you first, and it will keep happening in you as long as you remember the direction it comes from.

Most of us run dry on kindness because we start to think we are generating it. We are not. We are passing it on. And if the bucket feels empty, the move is not to squeeze harder. It is to turn back around and remember how much kindness is still being poured into us from the other direction.

He is still kind to you today. Right now. Reading this. Imperfect, tired, distracted, carrying whatever you are carrying.

His kindness toward you has not run out. It never will.

That is the fuel for everything you will try to extend today.

You cannot give what you do not remember receiving. Turn around and remember.

YOUR ONE THING FOR TODAY

Before you try to be kind to anyone else today, take sixty seconds and list, in your head or on paper, three kindnesses God has shown you recently. Not big. Small. A conversation that landed well. A difficult thing that did not land at all. Something you quietly asked for that quietly arrived. Then step into the day with your bucket a little more full than empty.

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father, thank you for the kindness that appeared, in Jesus, for me. Thank you that it arrived before I deserved it and keeps arriving while I still do not. Help me remember today that I am not the source. I am the downstream. Let your kindness pour through me to the people I will meet, and when I run dry, remind me to turn back around. Amen.

If a particular kindness of God has been on your mind recently, I would love to hear about it. Hit reply.

God bless you, my friend.

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