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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.
As I was
preparing the blog for today, I reread what I wrote in my blog post three years
ago. I spent a large portion of space
talking about what the Bible really means when it says the word fool. Re need to remember that this is not a word
that refers to a person’s intelligence.
Rather, he is to what it does refer:
The fool is the person
who should know better but doesn’t care.
The fool is the person who can make a good decision but doesn’t. The fool is a person who knows that they
should ask for guidance and who doesn’t.
Can an intelligent person be a fool?
Absolutely. Can an uneducated
person be a fool? Absolutely. One’s education doesn’t make one a fool. One’s choices are what makes one a fool.
When we
are talking about fools, it really makes sense to talk about choices and not
education. The fool chooses to follow
the wrong path. The fool chooses to not
seek the wisdom of the community around him.
For me,
this is really a character issue.
Character is about doing what is right in all circumstances. By definition, the fool doesn’t do this. The fool seeks his own pleasure in the moment
without having the desire or the forethought to consider the future.
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