Kindness - The 5th Fruit of the Holy Spirit



Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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Bible Knowledge Ministries

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." (Galatians 5:22)

As a result of more people being impatient, having short fuses and with everyone always being in a hurry - many people have lost the ability to treat others with kindness and respect. A kind word, a kind action to another person can really do wonders for them.

When you study the life of Jesus in the New Testament, you can really tell how kind He always was with other people in His dealings with them. Jesus is without question, the ultimate role model for all of us of someone who was fully operating in all 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The quality of kindness will go hand in hand with the quality of love. Once the Holy Spirit starts to transmit His love up into you, the quality of kindness will follow right along with it. It will become much easier for you to be able to be kind to others once the love of God starts to flow more into your personality.

You can't help but be more kind to others if God's love is flowing through you. This is why the quality of love has to be the main quality that you really concentrate on getting more of from the Holy Spirit. Once the love of God starts to operate and flow through you to touch others, many of the other fruits of the Holy Spirit will start to follow suit in domino fashion.

Here are some of the different definitions of what real kindness is all about:

Quality or state of being kind 

The steadfast love that maintains relationships through gracious aid in times of need 

Goodness of heart, serviceable, good, gracious, pleasant 

Love for mankind, hospitality, acts of kindness, readiness to help, human friendship, benevolence, taking thought of others 

Goodness in action, sweetness of disposition, gentleness in dealing with others, affability 

The ability to act for the welfare of those taxing your patience

As you can see from some of these different definitions, this is a very beautiful quality to have transmitted up into your soul and personality by the Holy Spirit. Not only will you be able to touch others with this godly quality, but you will also be able to touch yourself - because you will feel so much better about yourself if you can learn to treat others with much more kindness and respect in your daily dealings and affairs with them.

Article written by Michael Bradley, you can get the complete article on the fruits of the Spirit - You can also receive 20% off retail on all Christian books and Bibles at his online christian bookstore.

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