Our Proverb for day five in our series has some important New Testament connections as well. Proverbs 3:3 states, "Do not let kindness and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart." Some Bible translations translate kindness as love in this verse, so let us speak about them together.
The writer of Proverbs believes that love and kindness are so important in our lives, that we should bind them to us. He means that they must become an essential quality in all that we do. They should be so much a part of us that we don't even stop to think about being loving and kind, it's just part of who we are and what we do.
Jesus told us that we are to do unto others as we would have done to us. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves. In Ephesians 4:32, Paul tells us to be kind to one another. It is so important that those who follow the Lord Jesus be kind, compassionate and loving people. Those who we encounter in this life are watching our behavior. If we claim that we belong to Jesus and then act in ways that are not kind and not loving, that will turn people away from coming to know the Lord Jesus.
The only way that we can become more kind and more loving is to keep our eyes on Jesus. He was the epitome of love and kindness in action. If we study what Jesus did while He was here on this Earth, we will know how to act in a kind and loving manner in all of our relationships. We must live and act as Jesus did and as He would want us to.
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