Hi Brian!

The word for this week is "kind". We'll be looking at two portions of Scripture today:

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. KJV

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. KJV

This is the Greek word "chrestos". Strong's Concordance says: employed, useful in manners or morals. Thayer's Greek Lexicon says: properly, fit for use, useful, virtuous, good, manageable, mild, pleasant. Vine's Expository Dictionary says: serviceable, good, pleasant, gracious, kind.

We also see a form of this word in 1 Cor 13:4:

 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, KJV

This is the Greek word ""chrestologia". Strong's Concordance says: to show oneself useful;, act benevolently. Thayer's Greek Lexicon says: to show oneself  mild, to be kind, use kindness.  

God's people MUST develop and learn to thrive in an atmosphere of KINDNESS! Kindness in the face of ill treatment may be hard on the flesh, but it will reap great rewards from the Father for doing things the WORD'S way, and will eventually have HIS kind of effect on those who have treated us poorly! I know that your family has experienced some of this, and also seen GOD work in your behalf when you let it go! He is SO faithful to us and to His Word! Here is TAYA (Gaukrodger) with "Narrow Road":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!