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1/10/2011 - Proverbs 3:3-4 Mostly What I Need From You

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SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 3:3-4 Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. 4 Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation.

OBSERVATION: Who doesn't want a good reputation? Who is not looking for favor with both God and people? Here is what it takes: a deep and strong commitment to simple, faithful kindness. Being kind, gentle, looking for and accentuating the positive, is such an important and overlooked value. We live in a world that exalts the ideals of confrontation and conflict, of getting our own opinions out on the table and convincing others that we are right and they should change. The reality is that most everyone is dealing with some hard thing in their life and what they need from us is not another opinion, it is a load of gentle kindness. It is no wonder that this kind of person has a good reputation. Who do we think fondly of? Those who have shown kindness to us in the midst of hurt and pain. Those are the people we need to be.

APPLICATION: I can get so wound up in the idea that some one needs to change the way they do things (especially at home) that I simply forget to be kind. I want to cultivate a reputation of kindness. I fear I have a ways to go.

PRAYER: Lord, You are so kind. Help me to be like You in that regard. Remind me when I am getting off track and help me to always show kindness to everyone.

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