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“I’m Surrounded by Idiots”
Do you find it hard to be kind? I know there's times when we can feel like we're surrounded by idiots or people who are incompetent or lazy.
Ephesians 4:32
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Do you find it hard to be kind? I know there’s times when we can feel like we’re surrounded by idiots or people who are incompetent or lazy. When people mess up it’s easy to let them know about it, all of their faults and failures. But here’s a good question for you, do you hold yourself to that same standard? When you mess up, when maybe you don’t make an appointment or you forget about something, or maybe you don’t do as good of a job as you should have done on a certain project, do you beat yourself up over not doing what you should have done and failing to do the right thing?
I think yes, sometimes we do that, but quite often instead we maybe give ourselves a pass. Maybe say, well, life was stressful or busy. So of course I forgot that, of course, I didn’t do a good job at that. We make up excuses, don’t we? Yet we forget everyone else’s lives are filled with just as many stressors as our own. What a reason for us to act with kindness toward each other, recognizing our own limitations, our own faults and failures should really move us to be kind to one another.
But there’s a greater reason for us to be kind as Christians. In Ephesians Chapter 4, verse 32, it says this.
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has forgiven us. (Ephesians 4:32)
The reason that God gives for us to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving to each other is because he acted that same way towards us. And God isn’t like us with so many faults and failures, so many stressors that he can’t handle. God is one hundred percent perfect all of the time. Yes, God doesn’t owe us anything, he doesn’t owe us his kindness, his compassion, his grace. And yet he gives it freely, doesn’t he? He forgave all of our sin for the sake of Jesus. He gave us what we didn’t deserve.
It’s that kindness, compassion, forgiveness that inspires us to act in that way towards other people. Yes, it’s good to be kind and recognize the stressors other people are facing in their own lives, but how much better it is for us to be kind to one another because God has been kind to us in Christ, amen.
