Add to your faith…brotherly kindness. 2 Peter 1:5, 7 (NKJV) 

According to an article in Today magazine on May 11, 2023, two police officers in Oklahoma received a report of someone yelling for help. They responded to the call and tracked the voice. When they came upon the distressed individual, they found not a human but a goat. Its cry sounded like “Help!” The animal had become separated from its mate, and the officers kindly guided it back to its companion.

If we listen carefully nowadays, we can hear cries for help coming from many different places. People need a kind shoulder to lean on, a kind friend to talk with, a kind word to encourage them, or some help kindly given.

Showing kindness to others is something we as Christians simply should do! Proverbs 19:22 says, “What is desired in a man is kindness.” And Romans 12:10 says, “Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another.”

Kindness is among the items we call the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22). Being filled with the Spirit should produce all the fruit all the time. We can praise God today that the kindness of Jesus is available for us to duplicate in the power of the Holy Spirit.  Since we have received it, we should give it.  Afterall, Jesus did say, “‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ” (Acts 20:35)