The In Touch Daily Devotional. Now available in easy to read large print. Order yours today. male announcer: “In Touch,” the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on “In Touch,” “The Attractive Quality of Kindness.” Dr. Charles Stanley: Do you consider yourself a kind person? Think about it a moment.
Are you a kind person? You’re friendly. You’re generous. You’re patient. You’re easygoing. You’re warm-hearted, thoughtful. And you’re just fun to be with. Now, you may be thinking, “No, I’m not, but I’d like to meet somebody like that.” Okay, but I want you to think about this. A kind person is a person who stands out in a crowd.
They may not be the one who talks the most, but there’s something about a kind person. It’s sort of a built-in attraction. It’s just there, and when a person’s kind, it not only shows in their face, but naturally, most of all, in their actions. And when I think about that, and I think about the characteristics of it, it’s very evident that it’s of the Holy Spirit because Paul says in this 5th chapter of Galatians, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,” we’ve talked about all of those, and then “kindness.”
Goodness and gentleness are two other traits, but I’m gonna just leave those with kindness because if you’re gentle, you’re gonna be kind. If you’re good, you’re gonna be kind. And so rather than take a whole message on each one of those, I want to talk about kindness and goodness and gentleness. And so when you think about kindness, what comes to your mind? Would you consider yourself a kind person? And maybe you would, maybe you wouldn’t, but also, he says, and this is one of my favorite verses about kindness, in the
