Prayers for loving difficult people

Showing kindness to a stranger

For grace toward the people who test your patience.

Also for kindness · stranger · random act of kindness · good samaritan · hospitality · helping someone · homeless person · love my neighbor · compassion · serve others · be kind

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luke 10:33-34, World English Bible
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2, World English Bible
for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
Matthew 25:35, World English Bible
So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
Galatians 6:10, World English Bible
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 19:34, World English Bible
Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Proverbs 3:27, World English Bible

A prayer

Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.

Lord, I rush past so many people. The cleaner in the office, the tourist who looks lost, the elderly man struggling with his bags. The Samaritan stopped for a stranger when others walked by.

Slow me down today. Show me one person I can help, and give me the nerve to actually do it. Let my kindness point to yours, even if they never learn my name.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

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