Bible Reading: II Samuel 9
Key Verse: Verse 1 – "And David said, Is there yet any that
is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's
sake?”
Key Words: I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake
Jonathan had been a close friend
of David’s down through the years, and now both Jonathan and his father King
Saul had died in battle with the Philistines.
After David became king he
desired to show kindness to anyone in Saul’s family. There was one who he could show kindness to,
the son of Jonathan, Mephibosheth, who was lame from an accident. David did
show kindness to Mephibosheth but it was because of Jonathan that Mephibosheth
received kindness from David.
One stormy night an elderly
couple entered the lobby of a small hotel and asked for a room. The clerk said
they were filled, as were all the hotels in town. “But I can’t send a fine
couple like you out in the rain,” he said. “Would you be willing to sleep in my
room?” The couple hesitated, but the clerk insisted. The next morning when the
man paid his bill, he said, “You’re the kind man who should be managing the
best hotel in the United States. Someday I’ll build you one.” The clerk smiled
politely. A few years later the clerk received a letter from the elderly man,
recalling the stormy night and asking him to come to New York. A round-trip
ticket was enclosed. When the clerk arrived, his host took him to the corner of
5th Avenue and 34th Street, where there stood a
magnificent new building. “That,” exclaimed the man, “is the hotel I have built
for you to manage.” The man was William Waldorf Astor, and the hotel was the
original Waldorf-Astoria. The young clerk, George C. Boldt, became its first
manager.
Kindness
does pay.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞We
will choose today to be kind or unkind and then we will see the result of our
actions. Which will you choose?
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