You and I know when we are the recipients of kindness. Those experiences are often we we least expect them but they come at the right time. Other experiences of kindness happen because we are with a community of kind like minded friends. It seems much harder to know if our efforts are received and experienced as true kindness, unless the recipient really knows us and trusts us. Our efforts can be done with a hidden agenda to make us look good, or perhaps out of guilt, not love. Regardless, the ones who know us best really know our intentions and motivations.
“When the work of shepherding leads us to pride, judgment, superiority, or deception, we have forgotten that we are a lamb. A shepherd who is not first a lamb is a dangerous shepherd and has ceased to follow the Good Shepherd. Our primary identity in life, if we are to be eternal value to the Father, is not that of a shepherd but that of a lamb.” - Diane Langberg, Redeeming Power
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