>Soft.

>Delicate.

>Gentle.

>Affectionate.

>Loving.

Have you tried being tender towards someone that has wronged you?  It is nearly impossible.  In the heat of the moment, tenderness is replaced with deep anger, spite, animosity, revenge, and eventually hatred and bitterness.  

Ephesians 4:32 says, “and be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ’s sake, has forgiven you.

And so, when I’m tempted to let bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and words of evil filled up in my heart come out, I will put it away.  He tells me to.

If we want to be tender people, we must be a forgiving people.  How can we be a forgiving people?  

1) Preach the gospel to yourself daily.

2) Be filled with the Spirit.

3) Pray for those who wrong you or persecute you or who simply are harder to love.  

How about we start being tender towards those in our own house first and foremost?  

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