2020 Lenten Devotional - Rotten

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Day Twenty-Two // March 21 // Growing Kindness “Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” – Samuel Johnson –

Kindness is a choice – one that grows from the seeds of goodness, patience and love. More than mere niceness, kindness goes one step further. It traverses the wide gap that separates me from you to reflect the very nature of God – the very nature of the God who, in Jesus Christ, spanned the chasm of sin and death to invite us nearer to Him. It wasn’t deserved. It couldn’t be earned. But in God’s kind forbearance, He made the choice to love us – broken and wounded sheep in need of a Shepherd. Then, what we must come to understand is that God invites (and expects) us to continue that healing and


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