Day Twenty-One: Kindness
Love is kind… 1 Corinthians 13:4b
To be kind to someone is to be intentionally useful to them. It is looking to serve. Ray Pritchard calls it a “sweet usefulness”. Kindness doesn’t just mean being nice to people. It means to look for ways to meet their needs and to bless them. Do we do this in our marriage? You and I feel 100% of the weight that we are pulling, but we won’t naturally feel everything our spouse is pulling. Kindness gives us the eyes to notice and the compassion to help. How can you be useful to one another today?
Father, we know that every bit of our kindness to one another comes from your infinite kindness to us. Your kindness has led us to repentance. Thank you for pursuing us and working to meet our greatest need; namely, a restored relationship with you.Stir up in us hearts that are kind. Kind to others and especially kind to our spouse. Give us eyes to see ways that we can be useful to one another. Amen.
