Why You're Kind All Day and Then Snap at Home

Dear friend.

Let me ask you something. Have you ever had a genuinely good day - patient with the people around you, generous when it cost you something, even gracious in traffic - and then come home, and within about twenty minutes, all of that simply vanished?

I think most of us have. And I think most of us quietly wonder what it says about us.

I’ve been sitting with Proverbs 3:3 this week, and it’s been more uncomfortable than I expected. The verse doesn’t say: try to be kind when you feel like it. It says: write kindness deep within your heart. Make it part of the fabric of who you are - not a mood, not a streak of good behaviour, but something so rooted it shows up even when the door closes behind you.

I’ll be honest - I came home after what felt like a fruitful Sunday at the corps, having prayed with someone carrying something really heavy, and I was short-tempered over something trivial within ten minutes. The gap between who I’d been that morning and who I was being that evening was not small.

Here’s what I didn’t expect, though. That same image - writing on the heart - turns up almost word for word in Jeremiah 31:33, where God makes his deepest promise to his people. He doesn’t say: try harder. He says: I will do the writing.

That changes the whole question.

Today’s devotional is five minutes. I think it might be worth yours.

Watch Day 2: Wisdom for Real Life - Kindness Isn’t a Feeling →

With warmth.

Rob

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