Never Stop Being Kind

In my class at school there is a girl who has always been unfriendly to me. One day she kept telling me what I had to do and mustn’t do, and threw paperballs at me. When I asked her to stop, she didn’t listen to me.

During my devotions, before I went to sleep that night, I read in the Bible: “Do not let the evil defeat you, defeat evil by doing good.”* (Romans 12:21) Then I prayed to Jesus to help me. On the next day I tried to be good by myself, but it didn’t work. I was not able be kind, and I was angry instead. In the evening I prayed again the same prayer: “Lord Jesus, help me to be kind to my classmate.”

On the following day I was able to be kind to her, though she still was unfriendly. But in my heart I knew, “If God is for me, who can be against me?”

Now our fall holidays from school have ended, and I will see her again. I am a bit afraid that she will still treat me unfairly and will continue to be unkind to me. Please pray that I won’t quit being kind to her. I want her to see Jesus in me, and show her that the One who is in me is greater than the one who is in this world.

—With the love of the Lord,
Sophia, age 11, from Hamburg, Germany