Pickle-Down Economics by David Jeremiah

Tuesday, November 7 Pickle-Down Economics Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ…who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 This past June, Hunter Hostetler was working at a McDonald’s restaurant in Scottsburg, Indiana, when an older woman came through the drive-thru and decided to pay for the customer behind her—a man with four children in the van. The woman told Hunter to tell the man and his children, “Happy Father’s Day.” The woman’s spontaneous act of kindness caused an amazing chain reaction. The man in the van paid for two cars behind him; and they did the same for those who followed them. One customer after another passed along the blessings. By the end of the day, 167 drivers had paid for the orders of the vehicle behind them.

Recommended Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:1-7

Kindness begets kindness, comfort begets comfort, and no one knows how far the ripples will travel. When we take time to comfort, encourage, help, evangelize, or lift up another person, we never know when, or if, the chain-reaction will end. That’s why we shouldn’t grow weary in doing good, “for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:9-10).    Make a conscious effort to pass along kindness to someone today.    You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson