Enjoy Life, Enjoy God
KIND & CLEVER
January 11, 2013
Patient, Polite, Persistent. Ever have a grievance with a company, maybe a problem with travel at the airport or hotel? I've seen people's meltdowns, temper-tantrums at employees. I've been guilty myself. But as of late, I've embraced patient, polite, persistent. It's a better way.
I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
--Matthew 10:16 TNIV
--Matthew 10:16 TNIV
Matthew 10 is Jesus' "Traveling Instructions" chapter for us, how to get along and through this world. He says, "Be kind and clever."
To be a Christ-follower not only "innocent," I'll call it "kind," a nice person, but be alert, be smart, clever. No room for either a cantankerous, mean-spirited lout, but neither, a naive, doormat. Doves, snakes. Let's leave it at kind and clever.
To be a Christ-follower not only "innocent," I'll call it "kind," a nice person, but be alert, be smart, clever. No room for either a cantankerous, mean-spirited lout, but neither, a naive, doormat. Doves, snakes. Let's leave it at kind and clever.
Joyfully,
Dale Patterson