“Random kindness” and “Sacrificial loving” need not be separated, with the result that random acts of kindness are categorically denigrated as superficial. For a Christian who is growing in grace, both random acts of kindness and sacrificial loving would be a part of the believer’s conduct, and considered fruits of the spirit. While sacrificial loving may relate better to those closest to us, random kindness in the form of donating to a worthy charity, encouraging someone in distress, giving a meal to a homeless drug addict……why not? Efforts to share the love of God, in small ways, randomly, consistently….is it not all good? Does Jesus judge this as superficial? I think not. The motivation for doing an act of random kindness or sacrificial loving is where the heart reveals itself. If done in humility and as a part of our gratitude and love for God, however random, it is a form of unspoken obedience to the Lord. If it is done to merely assuage one’s conscience, or as an act of pride, thus it would be done for the wrong reason, but God judges the heart, not any of us. We must remember that even a compulsive, unpredictable, but random act of kindness we have felt compelled to do may well have been the prompting of the Holy Spirit working within. Soli Deli Gloria.