You want your life to be happy, and you want to make other people happy. You have met too many people who are unhappy and make the people they are around unhappy. Your desire is to be joyful and to make others joyful.
That leads you to wonder just how you can be a joy and spread a little joy to those who you encounter on a daily basis. Billy Graham preached to millions of people. He traveled the world spreading the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ. This allowed him to cross paths of millions of people and to talk to scores of people as well. He stated what you have to do to bring happiness into someone else’s life: “Often the only thing that a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or that person was kind to him or her.” Being kind to another person will bring happiness to that person.
The Holy Bible talks a lot about being kind to others. It is interesting, that one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is “kindness.” When you become a Christian, and you receive the Holy Spirit, one of the characteristics that will mark your receiving of the Spirit, is that of “kindness.” But how can you show kindness to others? That answer Scripture gives in Ephesians 4:32, “Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you.” Not only is being kind a gift of the Holy Spirit, but the Word of God commands you to “be kind” to those around you. God then tells you the key to being kind when He says for you to be “tender-hearted.” You are to be kind by being “tender-hearted” to those God places in your path. God continues in His description of telling you how to be kind by stating “forgiving each other.”
To spread a little happiness around, you just need to be kind; this is done by being “tender-hearted” and by forgiving others. Go out and spread kindness!
