Kindness

Have you ever been treated by someone with kindness? When someone cares for us and we notice their acts of kindness, it is surely very comforting and reassuring. All of us really appreciates it when someone treats us with kindness, so how can we also develop and posses this quality?

What Is Kindness

Let us discuss the meaning of kindness. Kindness is a an active quality which involves showing a genuine interest in the welfare of other people. It can be expressed through acts of good deeds and considerate or helpful words. What motivates true kindness are empathy and deep love. A kind person is considerate, generous, gracious, sympathetic, and friendly.

Being Kind is Rewarding

• You can gain loyal friends.

Being kind will make us become tactful and as a result we can maintain a good relationship with people. Whenever we face a difficult or stressful situation, tactfulness will help us to handle such situation in a considerate way. We wouldn't be cruel towarss someone who offended us, instead we will try to handle it peacefully and we would be considerate of that person. So if we manifest loving-kindness at all times, people will be more likely be drawn to us, thus we could gain loyal friends.

• You are more likely to be happier.

Happiness comes from giving. A kind person usually manifest kindness through giving to others and it may be in a form of material things, using our time to help others or through kimd words. Being generous will make us happier.

• We become more forgiving.

When we posses kindness, we become more forgiving and compassionate towards others. When someone offended us, instead of counting the 'injury' and taking it against the other person, we would choose to forgive them instead.

• Kindness attracts kindness.

When someone shows kindness towards us, we are more likely to show kindness too and that's the same when we are the one who showed kindness to others. For example, if we are treated in kindly, it would most probably mobe us to deal with others in a kind way too. And when we do this consistently, it wouldn't be so hard for us to show kindness all the time.

God Perfectly Manifest Kindness

God takes the lead in being considerate and kind. According to the bible, he is kind even to the wicked and unthankful. How so? For example, in Matthew 5:45 the bible says that God:

“makes his sun rise on both the wicked and the good and makes it rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous.”

Isn't this really nice? Even the people who doesn't acknowledge and believe in him still benefits from the kind provisions he provides and this makes all sorts of people really happy. Another example of his kindness, is during the time that Adam and Eve sinned against him in the garden of Eden, he still sewed or made coverings for them out of fig leaves.

And the biggest form of kindness and love he showed toward us is by giving his only begotten son to save mankind from death and for our sins to be forgiven.

We are all created in the image of God, so we have the capability to develop and ahow kindness just like him. Knowing how kind he is to us should move us to develop this beautiful quality. When we show kindness, we reflect generous and warm personality of our kind God. Hope we could all show kindness this year!