Random Acts of KIndness -- Spreading the Love of Jesus One Kind Action at a Time

  Helping others at the moment of need -- Do Random and PLANNED Acts of Kindness!

Nearly every day we encounter people that, for whatever reason, could use a little help. As Christians,we need to be prepared to offfer that help to others.  We need to be known by our love and kindness.

Suppose you are standing in line at a pharmacy and the elderly woman in front of you is checking out.  You can’t help but overhear the conversation.  The cashier tells the woman that the co-pay amounts for her medication total $60.  The woman hunts through her purse and says that all she has is $45.  She will will have to put one of the prescriptions back. Then you remember you have enough to pay for it in your wallet. You hand her the $45 and say, “I hope this helps.  The Lord has blessed me and He wants me to bless you!"

That is what the Kindness Project is all about; simply helping others at the very moment of their need.   It is a “Random Act of Christian Kindness.”

 Kindness is Love in action.  We are to emulate God: Loving, Merciful, Compassionate, gracious, generous, Long-suffering,  I believe the best word to describe the Christian attitude to those in need is love. Love.....your neighbour, your enemy, the LORD your God, one another, does no harm, fulfills the Law, covers a multitude of sins, forgives all. Therefore we should Love each other.. 1 Cor 13:13 "If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing." Lets make sure that our acts gain us treasures in heaven and that we dont recieve our reward in full now.

. Jesus of course told us to be kind, compassionate and loving. The often quoted verse of "Love your neighbour as yourself" rings in our ears and our minds spring to verses where Jesus heals people, or talks to prostitutes, or one of the other humanitarian actions he does.

Matthew 7:12"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.": Bracketed by verses 7-8 and verses 13-14, both of which are about becoming and living as Christians. Matthew makes it quite clear here, and throughout his whole Gospel that acts are a natural outworking of faith and that our acts should lead people to Jesus.

Luke 6:31"Do to others as you would have them do to you.": becuase (V35) it emulates God and (Vs 43-45) it is the outworking of our new nature. Following these teaching Luke writes this "When Jesus has finished teaching all this in the hearing of the poepl, he entered Capernaum" (7:1). Queue the first gentile convert, the centurion, then the widows son is raised from the dead in Nain of which Luke writes this: "They [the Large crowd] were all filled with awe and praised God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said. "God has come to help his people." This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country."(7:16-17)  When we do good works we open an opportunity to share the Gospel.

Finally, St. Francis of Assisi famously commented, "Preach the Gospel at all times and if necessary use words", for our actions often speak far lounder than words.  Do some acts of kindness today and every day, in Jesus Name!