Daily Devotional
Be Kind
Text: Luke 10:25-37
Message
When it comes to being kind everyone has two choices in life to show love or hate to others.
To be kind is making the world know more love. It is not ignoring the pains of others and saying I know, saw, feel it and the shoe could have been on the other leg.
To be kind is to stop thinking of what you can get from people and start thinking of what people can get from you.
It is to remember and take care of the less privileged eliminating or reducing their pains.
To be kind is to put smiles on the face of the hopeless. It is buying a rotten good for nothing vegetable from a farmer which is impossible for anyone to buy, yet stands as the only hope for the farmer’s putting food on his family table.
Being kind is you willing to be the one who creates miracles for others?
That reminds me the story told by a man. It goes thus: “One afternoon, I went for a walk with a friend in the suburbs. Suddenly, an old man in tattered clothes approached with a bag of green vegetables in his hand. The sales of those vegetables are very poor, the leaves were dehydrated and yellow, and there were holes in them that are bitten by insects.
But my friend bought three bags without saying a word. But the old man embarrassingly explained: “I grew this vegetable myself. It rained a while ago, and the vegetable were soaked. They look ugly. I’m sorry.”
After the old man left, I asked my friend: Will you really eat these vegetables when you go home?
He said no. These vegetables can no longer be eaten.
Then why are you buying? Because it is impossible for anyone to buy those vegetables.
If I don’t buy it, the old man will probably have no income.
I admire my friend’s good deeds, so I caught up with the old man and bought some vegetables from him too.
The old man said very happily, “I been trying to sell them all day, and only you are willing to buy it.
Thank you so much. You have put food on the table for me and my family.
Several handfuls of green vegetables that I can’t eat at all taught me a valuable lesson.
When l heard the old man, I was almost move to tears.
The lesson is, when we are in a low ebb, we all hope that miracles will happen to us; but when
we are capable, are we willing to be the one who creates miracles for others?
Prayer Point: Oh Lord God, help me to be an helping hand to others, in the name of Jesus Christ!
