Do Something Nice For A Stranger Today – Sunday Thought For The Day

Being nice is not cost prohibitive. From time to time I’ll say to someone I am corresponding with or that I have been speaking with: “do something nice for a stranger today.”

But, what exactly does that mean? Do we know how to be nice to a stranger? It’s not complicated and it requires nothing of us but to acknowledge a stranger. But what does that mean?

We live in a culture in which we hurry by people consciously oblivious of them. Oftentimes we avoid making eye contact with people for any one of a plethora of reasons. We brush by people and frequently ignore them because that’s what we do.

Being nice to a stranger is sometimes simply smiling and saying hello and genuinely meaning it. Being nice to a stranger can be as simple as holding the door open for someone and acknowledging them as we do. Something as simple as a sincere thank you, can sometimes make another person’s day.

We do not know what burdens or sadness a person may be experiencing at any given moment and sometimes that random act of kindness can be a real blessing to someone.

Scriptures make clear that as Christians do not live for ourselves, we live to show forth Christ and too further His kingdom.

Years ago attended a small church that, I referred to as the church at the “well of Bethesda.”  I referred to it as such, because we ministered to the people that sadly, many other churches would not. John 5:3 (KJV) tells us that at the pool: “…lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered…” Christ ministered to a man at that pool. If we do not minister to persons like this who will? It is easy to give money for someone else to do it but I contend that Christ set the example of doing it Himself. Should we not do same? We welcome the castoffs of society in and treat them as warmly as we do one another.

The world has become an uncaring insensitive place, but that is not how Christians are to behave.

If we say Christ is our Savior, then we are to live the examples He set.  I encourage you to do something nice for a stranger today. As we are told in Hebrews 13:2 (KJV): “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

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Hebrews 13:1-3 (KJV)

1 Let brotherly love continue.

2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.