What We Are Is How We Treat Each Other

The Acts collection – March 8th, 2023 (7-minute read)

Do you remember learning to tie your shoes? Neither do I. I know it happened because I have been tying my shoes, well, for as long as I can remember. There are many things we have picked up along the way that we’ve learned how to do so well that we do them automatically without thinking about it. The transition from learning how to do a thing into it becoming second nature is called conditioning. It’s the deepest level of learning. That same process accounts for a great deal of our behavior, even though we don’t remember learning it. This article of the Acts collection is about kindness. It’s something that can sometimes be difficult because of those learned behaviors.

When we read in the bible or hear a preacher say that we should be kind to everyone, even our enemy, that goes against natural behavior for most of us. Kindness is the most common way that we can express God’s love, so we really ought to do it. But let’s face it. Some people just don’t deserve kindness. That neighbor wit…