Thanks for joining us for today's encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

Our reading titled Building Up Goodwill was written by Monica LaRose.

When we think of best business practices, what first comes to mind probably aren't qualities

like kindness and generosity. But according to entrepreneur, James Rhee, they should.

In Rhee's experience as CEO at a company on the brink of financial ruin, prioritizing what

he calls goodwill, a culture of kindness, and a spirit of giving, saved the company

and led to its flourishing. Putting these qualities central gave people the hope and motivation

they needed to unify, innovate, and problem-solve. Re-explains that, Goodwill is a real asset that can compound and be amplified. In daily life,

too, it's easy to think of qualities like kindness as vague and intangible, afterthoughts to our

priorities. But as the Apostle Paul taught, such qualities matter most of all. Writing to new believers, Paul emphasized that the

purpose of believers' lives is transformation through the spirit into mature members of the body of Christ.

To that end, every word and every action has value only if it builds up and benefits others.

Transformation in Jesus can only happen through daily prioritizing kindness, compassion, and forgiveness.

When the Holy Spirit draws us to other believers in Christ, we grow and mature as we learn from one another.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Ephesians chapter 4,

verses 15 and 16 and 22 through 32. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every

respect the mature body of him who is the head that is Christ. From him, the whole body,

joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love,

as each part does its work.

Now picking up at verse 22.

You are taught with regard to your former way of life to put off your old self, which is being corrupted

by its deceitful desires, to be made new in the attitude of your

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