Tuesday, November 13, 2012

OWEN



Good morning! I am Owen Weddle, Associate Pastor at Central.



Many countries across the world today are celebrating World Kindness Day. Kindness is this great ideal that we long to see it in others. We designate a day for that very reason. But we desire it because we don't see much of it. We create a day because every other day is not a day of kindness. But it is easy to take one day of the year to be kind…and it is easy to work out at the gym only once a year. It doesn't cost a lot in the long run.



But consistent kindness is something nobler... and something harder. Trying to encourage people to do exactly that, the Apostle Paul says in Philippians 2:3, “Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility regard others as more important than yourselves.” This sounds foreign to some of our ears. But when we treat ourselves as most important, we are continuously feeding ourselves. Eventually, we get out of shape and cannot easily exercise love for others. Anyone can be kind one day. To learn to be consistently kind to others, we have to learn to regard others as more important. That takes time and training!



May God bless you!