Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
– Colossians 3:12-13 (NIV)
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ, God forgave you. – Ephesians 4:32
To be kind is to forgive. To forgive is to be kind. It’s really that simple.
It’s like Paul (author of the Epistles) knew that people would get on our nerves, annoy us, irritate us – but he affirms that we should ‘bear with each other’. Why?
Because God bears with us! We annoy God, irritate him, get on His nerves, yet He bears with our foolishness and waits for us to return to our senses.
I love how the scripture says ‘clothe yourselves with…compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience’! When you wake up in the morning and you put on your physical clothes, remember to put on your spiritual clothes as well. So that people will see you wearing the best designer brand known to man…clothes of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
So many people are watching us as Christians! Stop and think about it…what you say and post on social media can lead or push someone away from Christ. Just by your own actions. Ask yourself, ‘If I am not operating in goodness, compassion, kindness and forgiveness…then what am I moving in?’
Side Story from this week:
So I’m in my final year, in halls living with people that I don’t know and I feeling like a fresher again. But let me share something…
The other day, we all cooked our own dinners. I finished munching early being the long throat lol, so I started washing up. I was taking my time ‘cos we were all chatting and I told them to bring their dirty plates/pots over so I can wash up…come and see resistance!
They really didn’t want me to do it and kept on asking ‘why?’ and to be honest I didn’t know why, other than to show love through the small things. So this is the whatsapp group for our halls (right image). Basically, I’m loving them for one reason, Jesus.
Story done!
Love God. Love people. Serve others.
You don’t have to shove a Bible in their face to show love. Be normal, it’s the small things. My housemates have been loving on me since. One gave me their heater when mine wasn’t working and one cooked dinner for me and washed my dishes today!
Love = More Love.
Loving on others brings out the love in them!
Wear love wherever you go 🙂
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Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.
– Ephesians 4:31-32, The Message Bible
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Published by Kanayo Dike-Oduah
Kanayo is a Multi-award winning, Author and Senior leader in education whose experience ranges from being a Deputy Head of Sixth Form, Head of Psychology and Lead Practitioner. Kanayo believes that these 3 elements are the driving force of her ministry and career. D.I.G; Drive, Integrity and Grace.
Having a psychology degree provides me with a broad scope to experience many industries and fields of work. Although, my main aim is to continuously learn and also to share my knowledge and experience with others, within and beyond the constraints of the psychology community. Hence my pursuit to teach!
Hopefully, the readers of this blog will find that it is infested with a scope of psychological knowledge, with the intention of conveying psychology in such a way that it is interesting and understandable to those who aren’t studying it as a discipline. In addition, you will find that I heavily cover various topics aside of psychology such as, Christianity because I am a Christian. I draw both passions together, Psychology and Christianity, observing how they complement and sometimes clash! This blog is where ‘Psychology meets Scripture’.
As well as teaching Psychology, I know God has called me to do something far greater in this world. My passion is for His Word and to encourage others to read the Bible, fall in love with it, but most importantly…fall in love with The Author! My role of teaching is not limited to psychology. I strongly believe God is stirring up the ‘teacher’ office of the Five fold ministry in me.
I’m a doctor by virtue, healing and performing heart surgery with words of encouragement.
I am extremely driven and passionate about getting everyone; both Christians and non-Christians to read, understand and live out the word of God. To achieve this, I’ve created online Bible Challenges, whereby people around the world via social media, read a book in the Bible, one chapter a day and share what they have drawn out from the text. I have numerous Bible challenges, all accessible from my blog (www.doctorkanayo.com) and the YouVersion Bible App where over 250,000 people have completed my devotionals around the world. One Bible Challenge at a time, I aim to change the skewed perceptions of the Bible being irrelevant and to show the true reality that the bible is ‘juicy’, tremendously relevant, fun and easy to read. My one prayer is that my teachings and writings from His word, will touch at least ONE person. That would be a serious mission accomplished to the glory of God!
If you have anything you would like me to blog about, do let me know by either commenting, or contacting me via my contact form.
Thank you for visiting my blog. With love, Kanayo x
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