Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering… -Colossians 3:12

If thou art a Christian, I bid thee look at thy Master, talking to the children, bending from the majesty of His divinity to speak to mankind on earth, tabernacling with the peasants of Galilee, and then-aye, depth of condescension unparalleled-washing His disciples’ feet, and wiping them with the towel after supper. This is your Master, whom ye profess to worship; this is your Lord, whom ye adore. And ye, some of you who count yourselves Christians, cannot speak to a person who is not dressed in the same kind of clothing as yourselves, who have not exactly as much money per year as you have. In England, it is true that a sovereign will not speak to a shilling, and a shilling will not notice a sixpence, and a sixpence will sneer at a penny. But it should not be so with Christians. We ought to forget caste, degree, and rank, when we come into Christ’s church. Recollect, Christian, who your Master was-a man of the poor. He lived with them; He ate with them. And will ye walk with lofty heads and stiff necks, looking with insufferable contempt upon your meaner fellow-worms? What are ye? The meanest of all, because your trickeries and adornments make you proud. Pitiful, despicable souls ye are! How small ye look in God’s sight! Christ was humble; He stooped to do anything which might serve others. He had no pride; He was an humble man, a friend of publicans and sinners, living and walking with them. So, Christian, be thou like thy Master-one who can stoop; yea, be thou one who thinks it no stooping, but rather esteems others better than himself, counts it his honor to sit with the poorest of Christ’s people, and says, “If my name may be but written in the obscurest part of the book of life, it is enough for me, so unworthy am I of His notice!” Be like Christ in His humility.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. -Luke 6:35

(E)ach in your proper sphere, speak kind words, do kind actions; live out Christ again in the kindness of your life. If there is one virtue which most commends Christians, it is that of kindness; it is to love the people of God, to love the church, to love the world, to love all. But how many have we in our churches of Crab-tree Christians, who have mixed such a vast amount of vinegar, and such a tremendous quantity of gall in their constitutions, that they can scarcely speak one good word to you: they imagine it impossible to defend religion except by passionate ebullitions; they cannot speak for their dishonored Master without being angry with their opponent; and if anything is awry, whether it be in the house, the church, or anywhere else, they conceive it to be their duty to set their faces like flint, and to defy everybody. They are like isolated icebergs, no one cares to go near them. They float about on the sea of forgetfulness, until at last they are melted and gone; and though good souls, we shall be happy enough to meet them in heaven, we are precious glad to get rid of them from the earth. They were always so unamiable in disposition, that we would rather live an eternity with them in heaven than five minutes on earth. Be ye not thus, my brethren. Imitate Christ in you…speak kindly, act kindly, and do kindly, that men may say of you, “He has been with Jesus.”~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. -1 John 4:17

There have been some who have been noble men, but have carried their courage to excess; they have thus been caricatures of Christ, and not portraits of Him. We must amalgamate with our boldness the loveliness of Jesus’ disposition. Let courage be the brass, let love be the gold. Let us mix the two together; so shall we produce a rich Corinthian metal, fit to be manufactured into the beautiful gate of the temple. Let your love and courage be mingled together. The man who is bold may indeed accomplish wonders. John Knox did much, but he might perhaps have done more if he had had a little love. Luther was a conqueror still, we who look upon him at a distance, think that if he had sometimes mixed a little mildness with it-if, while he had the fortitier in re, he had been also suaviter in modo, and spoken somewhat more gently, he might have done even more good than he did. So brethren, while we too are bold, let us ever imitate the loving Jesus. The child comes to Him; He takes it on His knee, saying, “Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not.” A widow has just lost her only son; He weeps at the bier, and with a word, restores life to the dead man. He sees a paralytic, a leper, or a man long confined to his bed; He speaks, they rise, and are healed. He lived for others, not for Himself. His constant labors were without any motive, except the good of those who lived in the world. And to crown all, ye know the mighty sacrifice He made, when He condescended to lay down His life for man-when on the tree, quivering with agony, and hanging in the utmost extremity of suffering, He submitted to die for our sakes, that we might be saved. Behold in Christ love consolidated! He was one mighty pillar of benevolence. As God is love, so Christ is love. Oh, ye Christians, be ye loving also.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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