Imitate the One Who Promises Everlasting Life -BE KIND LIKE JEHOVAH

Jehovah is kind to all people. (Luke 6:35) And Jesus is just like his Father. What helped Jesus to be kind to people when he was on earth?  He imagined how they would feel about what he might say or do.  For example, a woman who  had done many bad things came to Jesus.  She was crying so much that her tears fell on Jesus' feet. Jesus could see that she felt very sorry about the bad things she had done and that he had repented. He realized that if he was unkind to her, she would feel even worse. So he praised her for the good she did and forgave her.  Jesus also spoke kindly  to a Pharisee who did not agree with what he had done for this woman. -Luke 7:36-48. 

How can we be kind like Jehovah?  We need to think before we say or do something so that we  are gentle with others and do not hurt their feelings. Paul wrote  that a Christian  "does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all."  (2 Timothy 2:24) For example, think about how you can be kind in these situations: If your employer is  not doing his job well, what will you do? If a brother who has not been to the Kingdom Hall for many months comes to the meeting, what will you say to him.?  If you are preaching and some says that he is too busy to talk to you, how can you be kind to him?  If you wife asks you why you did not tell her about some plans you made, will you speak to her in kind way?  We need to imagine how others are feeling and how our words might affect them.  Then we will  know what we should say and to do to be kind like Jehovah. -Read Proverbs 15:28. 

Note: Yes, that is true in most cases; but there are the exceptions, like some people I have met, seem to not be phased by anything anyone says. There are some people who have a rare type of medical problem that prevents  them from having any type of feeling at all.  And there are those, few though they may be, who just don't feel anything, because Satan does get into people's heads and does things to them and also these people get like from their childhood, what they have gone through and their parents who raised them had something to do with that.  It is sad.  We should be kind to others. If we don't like them, we should at least be civil and try not to say anything unkind.  But society and the government/Satan have people believing that it is okay to take offense at the least bit, and I mean least but harsh word.   That is not right either, because these people who do take offense may be causing a detriment to the people they are taking offense to what they had said and could ruin a life for literally no real good reason. I am being objective here, I can see both sides, so everyone truly needs to be really careful here on this subject.  There are some really sensitive people out there who may have gone through a lot of trauma in their life and may also take offense at the least thing and some do just to try to get money  out of people because they can. That is not Jehovah's way. He does not want people to sue just for money because they feel they can profit off of someone.  

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