“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” (Galatians 5:22)
The Bible says that it is the goodness of God that will bring sinners to repentance and salvation. The quality of kindness is another really powerful quality to work through you.
This particular quality has a real power of attraction. Not only does God’s goodness draw people directly to Him, but this fruit of goodness operating in a believer can draw people directly to God through the actual believer. Spirit-filled saints who walk with many of these fruits operating through them are like a magnet. Many people who have been saved through an individual believer say that what drew them was the love and kindness that they saw shining through that believer.
Jesus says that we must carry His light and we must let that light shine before men and not try to hide it. Part of his light is these 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit shining through an anointed believer. Non-believers are really attracted to someone who has some degree of these nine fruits manifesting through them.
However, there is something extra special about the quality of goodness. Many Christians can effectively witness to others simply by living correctly and being a good example and role model for others to follow. Many unbelievers carefully observe and study some Christians because they know that there is something different about them.
One of the key qualities that an unbeliever will recognize in a solid Christian is this quality of kindness. This quality has the ability to really go deep into the core of a believer’s personality. For those who really have this quality, they can say that it is something that operates deep within them. This quality is not something that is given up like some of the other qualities. These people are good to the core of their personalities. You can see it and feel it when you surround yourself with these types of people.
As a result of seeing this divine goodness deeply ingrained in their personalities, there is an immediate attraction to them. You feel safe with them because you know that you can totally trust them and you know that they would never deliberately hurt you.
Children are quick to sense and pick up on this quality in people who actually have it. These types of Christians attract children and adults like magnets. That is why it is so important for every Christian to have this fruit and this particular quality. With it, you can easily draw many more people to the Lord.
If the goodness of God leads people to repentance and salvation, then the goodness of God working through an anointed believer will have the ability to draw unbelievers to salvation. And the goodness of God can be transmitted and developed in your personality through the power of the Holy Spirit. You can have the real goodness of God shining through you to reach others if you are willing to work with the Holy Spirit in this process of sanctification.
Now, here are some of the different definitions of what this quality is all about:
Beneficence, willing to do good, love in action
Goodness in actual manifestation, virtue equipped for action, a generous propensity both to will and to do what is good, intrinsic goodness producing a generosity and a divine state or being.
The word beneficence means the act or quality of being kind or doing good.
This particular quality is a very powerful fruit to operate on your personality due to the drawing power it has on it. And the beautiful part of this fruit is that this quality is so pure in its goodness, it doesn’t have any manipulative quality within it.
In other words, a truly good person couldn’t even start trying to use or manipulate you for their own personal gain because they’re too good and righteous to start thinking that way. This is why these types of people are so trustworthy and why so many people are attracted to them, because you feel so safe just being around them.
