God’s kindness is something more than sentiment; it is a deep and enduring love that moves Him to act on behalf of His people. A.W. Tozer
The kind and compassionate character of God is made evident throughout Scripture—beginning with Creation—yet it is most clearly seen in the kindness of our Savior, who offered His life so that we might receive His undeserved grace and mercy.
The Lord’s kindness to us was purchased by His work on the cross. This work, completed in the past, remains a present reality as we experience His kindness in countless ways in our daily lives.
The kindness of the Gospel transforms us as we abide in Christ. The Lord not only calls us to be kind, but also provides the desire and ability—through the power of His Spirit—to soften our hearts and enable us to bless, serve, and forgive one another with tenderhearted care.
As we look to the future, His compassionate character brings us hope knowing that we will, one day, experience the full revelation of His kindness to us – a kindness that sustains us now and will, one day, welcome us home.
Scriptures for Meditation
“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands,forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Exodus 34:6b-7
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:4-5
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:21
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6-7
Song selection: His Mercy is More
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