God’s Kindness Towards You
Ephesians 2:6-7 Yes, it is because we are a part of Christ Jesus that God raised us from death and seated us together with him in the heavenly places. God did this so that his kindness to us who belong to Christ Jesus would clearly show for all time to come the amazing richness of his grace.
Often – in fact, more often than we might expect – a simple act of kindness on our part, which can cost us next to nothing, could brighten up someone’s day … even save their life. But then there are those times when showing kindness can imperil your very existence.
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and member of the Nazi party who bribed his way into a business opportunity in Kraków, Poland as Jews were being rounded up, ready for the death camps being built in Auschwitz Birkenau less than 50 miles down the road.
But as the horror of the “Final Solution” unfolded, Schindler’s focus shifted from making money to saving as many lives as possible. He risked everything – his very life – to save over 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust.
Yep, sometimes kindness isn’t that simple. Sometimes it can cost you everything. Writes the Apostle Paul a couple of thousand years ago …
Ephesians 2:6-7 Yes, it is because we are a part of Christ Jesus that God raised us from death and seated us together with him in the heavenly places. God did this so that his kindness to us who belong to Christ Jesus would clearly show for all time to come the amazing richness of his grace.
God’s kindness towards you (and me) did in fact cost Him everything – the death of Jesus, His only Son, on that Cross to pay the price that needed paying that we might be saved; that our lives might be redeemed much like Oskar Schindler’s Jews.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t deserve that … which of course is the whole point! Because had we deserved it, you and I, we would never have discovered for all time to come, the amazing richness of God’s grace
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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