Anyone
Who Serves The Lord
Must
Not Be Hard To Get Along With.
Instead,
They Must Be Kind To Everyone.
Scripture
2
Timothy 2:24
Anyone
who serves the Lord must not be hard to get along with. Instead, they
must be kind to everyone. They must be able to teach. The one who
serves must not hold anything against anyone.
Observation
I
don't know why this verse caught my eye today! Maybe it is because I
need to put it into practice!
Are
you sometimes hard to get along with? Are you kind to EVERYONE?
I
don't know about you but I can be pretty hard to get along with
sometimes. Just because I am old that doesn't give me the freedom to
be grumpy or to be a grouch! The really hard part of this verse is
that the Lord says that you and I need to be kind to “everyone”.
Yes,
we are to be kind to the person who is on the phone trying to scam
us, kind to the person that cuts us off when we are driving, and even
kind to the person who is going 50 miles per hour in the left lane on
the interstate and has 20 cars stacked up behind them and you are one
of the twenty! And yes, kind to the person who gives us the finger
for not driving as fast as they would like for us to go!
Lets
look for a way to express a random act of kindness today to someone:
someone who might be a little down, someone who needs a little help
or just someone who could use a little encouragement! It might be a
phone call, writing them a note and sending it via snail mail, a
text, an email, an encouraging word to someone, maybe even mowing
someone's lawn or repairing something for someone, taking them an
entire meal or maybe a dessert!
Proverbs
12:25
Anxiety
weighs down the heart, but a kind word
cheers it up.
Luke
6:35
But
love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without
expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and
you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to
the ungrateful and wicked.
1
Corinthians 4:12-14
12 We
work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when
we are persecuted, we endure it; 13 when
we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the
earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.
1
Corinthians 13:4
Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud.
Galatians
5:22-23
22 But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,forbearance,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control. Against such things
there is no law.
Ephesians
4:32
Be kind and
compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ
God forgave you.
Application
I
will look for ways to be kind to the people that God bring across my
path today. How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, it is easy to be mean and grumpy. It comes so natural for me.
But to be kind and tenderhearted You know that requires a lot of work
for me. Help me to be like You today. I want people to see Jesus in
me. Help me to encourage people today. Remind me that life is not
centered around me. Help me to keep my focus on other people rather
than on myself.
Daily
Bible Reading: Jonah 1,2,3,4; 2 Timothy 2
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