What is a Kind Person

When you are a kind person in a wicked world, you will be under attack because the world views kindness as weakness.

1 Corinthians 2:13-15 "…13And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.…"

Those who are deficient in kindness will attempt to paint kind people as foolish, even lie and twist the good things they do to make them look as though they did bad instead of good.

They did this to Jesus Christ, claiming He did His miracles by the power of the devil. They will do it to authentically born-again believers, too.

John 14:17 "the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you."

Romans 8:7 "because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so."

When we know the devil is working to foster this in people, using what they already feel in the flesh to escalate the mentality to cause harm to those he hates.

People who are intimidated by kindness will be triggered to include others in their hatred through gossip. They are never satisfied with being rude and mean themselves, they must gather others to do the same. They always need allies to prop them up.

These groups of people will unite against us, because they do not have a legitimate reason for their hate, they must be continually propped up by others to evade the guilt that dwells constantly inside.

True kindness is a character quality Christ gives us and comes from a place of strength. Even though others revile us for doing what is good and right, we remain sturdy and robust. Each rejection leads to resilience and perseverance. We do not become weaker from the attacks of the devil and those he uses, we become stronger.

Some hate our kindness because they think we are being manipulative. They believe this because when they are kind, they are manipulating and they think we do the same thing.

I once heard a woman say she was deliberately being nice to a person who was angry with her to "heap hot coals of kindness", she wasn't coming from the place of loving that woman, she just wanted the woman to feel bad about herself and this was the method to do that.

This kind of false kindness triggers more anger because it is obvious that it is manipulative, and the target knows it.

It is common for unkind people to poke at you with the hope you will become angry so they can justify their rudeness. If they can make you angry, they can claim you are worse than them.

This is why God tells us to bless our enemies, not to manipulate them but to keep ourselves from sinning in response to them.

It is not what people do to us that matters; it is how we respond in a Christlike manner to protect ourselves from becoming someone who dishonors God. This is the devil's goal to cause us to bring a sinful testimony to the world.

We must always be aware of why we are kind. Is it because we have the character of Christ and it is the bone and sinew of who we are, or are we being kind to get something out of it for ourselves?

When we operate out of kindness to make people happy with us, this is manipulation. True kindness coming from the heart does not have to be calculated or feigned; it will come naturally, even without thinking or expecting anything in return.

Healthy people are not threatened by genuine kindness; unhealthy people are threatened by kindness because it shines a light on what they lack. Unhealthy people need to feel special and superior; everything they do is based on the elevation of self.

It is important to be ourselves and allow others to be themselves. Then we can choose who our close friends are and who we need to keep our distance from.

Remember that unbelievers are not our friends, they are the enemies of Christ and of us. They need the gospel and salvation before they can be our friends.

Ephesians 4:18 "They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts."