day no. 16,076: we become apologists for that which we provide excuses

Ephesians 4:32

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Kind is a command. Nice is not.

Psalm 97:10

O you who love the LORD, hate evil!

Kindness confronts evil. Nice is evil because it refuses to openly oppose it. We become apologists for that which we provide excuses. Nice assumes the authority to offer peace treaties to kindness’s enemies. Nice is therefore treasonous rebellious pride. Nice is friendly fire. Nice shoots at those it should protect and excuses those it should shoot. 

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil.

If you love something, you must hate what opposes it. You cannot love without hatred. If you do not hate what comes against your beloved, you merely love yourself and your enjoyment of the beloved, but not the beloved itself. And to love what you love without any thought given to what the beloved likes or loves may be natural, but it is naturally evil. Niceness then, in the long run, isn't even nice. It is dangerous, conceited, and selfish propaganda. It baits and switches for the sake of self love.

Nice does not look to the interests of others, but only to its own interests in them.

While on his deathbed in his forties, Oscar Wilde turned to his lover, Robbie Ross, and said, “Did you love any one of those little boys for their own sake?” Robbie replied, “No, I can’t say I did.” Nice does what it wants to who it wants without worrying much about what it means to the other.

Nice needs Christ to forgive it. 

Kind comes from Christ and can forgive others.

Thus, we come full circle.

Ephesians 4:32

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.