“But the fruit of the Spirit is kindness…”
It’s possible that you live in fear wondering if Jesus is at the right hand of the Father scheming to make your life miserable. Or it is even possible that somehow you have bought into the thinking that Jesus is ready to crush you like a bug; like he is ready to take away your baptismal rights and give you a bag of filthy rags to carry around for the rest of our life. You may think Jesus is there at the right hand of the father saying: “Yes, I cannot wait to make your life as miserable as possible because you sinned against me or you were seduced by false gods or because of your low self-esteem.” But this is not the case.
Like Pharaoh’s daughter showed kindness to Moses, like Rahab to the spies, like David to Mephibosheth, like Joab to Absalom, like Elisha who restored to life the woman’s son, like Joseph to Mary, the centurion to his servant, John to Mary, Paul to Onesimus, God’s kindness flows to you day after day after day after day. In God’s economy, in Jesus’ kingship, no child of God is damaged goods. None. His hesed, his steadfast love, his kindness endures forever.
