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Discipleship Focus: Character
- Character: Having the interior life that is necessary to support the work that God sets before a person. It is hearing from God and obeying. It is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.
Once more
we have a great opportunity to speak about character. Proverbs continues to not disappoint. We continue to have the ways of the righteous
lifted up in comparison to the unrighteous.
For
example, we hear that pride brings disgrace but humbleness brings about wisdom. Riches will not help us in the end, but
righteousness will help us in the life to come.
With our mouth we destroy our neighbor, but with our knowledge we
preserve those around us. Slanderers reveal secrets while those who are
trustworthy know how to keep their mouth shut.
Those who give freely grow richer while those who without will suffer in
want.
I think
you get the point here in this second day of studying character. Those people who have good character will
live a life of fulfillment and eternal reward.
Those people who live their life without character may find temporal joy
but they will neither find fulfillment nor eternal joy. We live our life with a choice every
day. we can either life focused on our
temporal desires or we can focus on our eternal character.
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