BUILDING A GODLY CHARACTER

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Character is a life of a living being. The ways and who we are, truly reflect through our characters.  Who God is can be known by his character.  God's character is in earthen vessel.  A man's character is like smoke.  It can not be hidden, no matter how hard we try to camouflage it. My mother always say, no dead thing is hidden from the fly. A man's true character will always comes out sometimes when he least expected.


Our body respond when they are pull or attracted to something. First, discover who you are, and how you respond to certain things in life.  Unless you understand your character, you may not be able to know God's.


Our godly character  can be reflected as: Preparation, foundation, carcass, finishing. 


1.  Preparing ourselves through the journey of life.

2.  The foundation determine the structure our life takes.  As in building, the foundation determine the number    of floors it can accommodate.

3. Carcass: The quality of work done during the building process determine the life span and durability of the house. How you build your life, tells how durable and enviable your life would be. How you make your bed, that is how you lie on it, so to say.

4. Finishing has to do with the fittings. We are the finishing point of the end of end time era. We are the AC, paints, electrical socket, etc in the household of God.  What are your values in the church, society, and for humanity today?  Life is a continuous movement.  For a christian, the Bible says, it's up & up on to a perfect day, for others, it's full of ups and down, so they say. Keep refining yourself and keep riding less you fall.







5. Control yourself of all sort of sinful pleasure, so as to keep the spirit alive.

6. Say of yourself, I am a temple build by God to last. I shall last. Temple, are structure build for God or gods to dwell and for worship.  We are God's living temple-God's building.

THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW OF YOURSELF AND WHAT OTHERS KNOW OF YOU

From the above diagram or information box, human has for characteristic-fold. Each dependent on the other. Our characters are like smoke.  It cannot be hidden, no matter how hard we try. Those with dual personality, if any still cannot tell when they leak out what they intended to hide.


1. YOUR & YOURSELF:  In the first box, it tells us of what you know of yourself of your character, and others don't know. Your secrets, how your mind works, how you think within.  No one can read your mind, except you and you alone. 

2. YOUR & OTHERS: In the second box, this is simple. Our everyday interaction with ourselves and others.  What we know of ourselves and others know about us.


3. NOT YOU BUT OTHERS: What others know about you, that you don't know of yourself.  You may wonder, what on earth is he talking about.  Is there something I might not know of myself and someone from outside of me can tell of me?  Yes, there is.  Many a times, we have fallen victim to others or to ourselves. For instance, our laugh, smile, the way we move our hands, blink our eyes.  Generally, our mannerism.  People around us can read this signs about us, yet we are the possessor and we can.  Maybe, you have heard something like this.  "...the way the guy smile at me, is like he is in love with me." or You might have approach a lady or a man, and you hear words like, "...hey, since when or I don't expect this from you".  Before then you were convince such a person will never say no to what your advances, because you thought you have assurance from the way he/she act with you.

4. UNKNOWN: We are always afraid of the unknown.  There is nothing much here to hide from anyone.  It's basically, what you don't know of yourself and others don't know about you.  God alone knows.  

In all that you do in trying to build a perfect character, never ever give up.  Nothing good comes easy.  Try, try, and try again.  No pain, no gain.

In summary, does our character truly reflect God's image?  Does it help others to draw near to you?  Does it help us come close to know God through you? Does it leave you and other around you in a happy state? Does it make the earth a better place to live?  

Yes, we can please everyone, we can't satisfy all.  You are not in this world to live to my expectation,