It’s easy to be nice to casual acquaintances. I see them often enough to care what they think of me, and sporadically enough to control what they see. So I act as superficially kind as possible.

But it’s also easy not to be nice to strangers or loved ones. I figure the strangers will never really know me anyway. I figure my loved ones know me well enough that my behavior doesn’t matter. 

But it does. In Matthew 25:42-45, we’re given this eye-opening story...