CHARACTER. Does it matter?
A Christians actions either draw them closer or farther from God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
A person’s thoughts, attitudes, and actions will either draw them to be more or less like Jesus! Everything must be done to the glory of God. There should be no division of sacred and the secular. Character isn’t personality. It takes more then a good personality to influence people for Christ. It takes godly character!
Above is a picture that represents how godly character works. The fruit on the tree is personality. The shadow of the tree is a person’s reputation. But the roots of the tree are the most important and they represent a person’s character! The roots most be the starting point for the tree, and are the thoughts, attitudes, and actions from God in a Christians life! God gives His best to those who reflect the beauty of His Holiness. –2 Chronicles 16:9
The fruit is the Holy Spirit being revealed in the Christians life to benifit others and continue the work of God in the world.
Holiness is wholeness. Holiness is being exactly who God has created Christians to be. For instance, a chair is created by a chair maker for the purpose of people being able to sit on it. However, people sometimes take the chair and use it for other purposes that the chair was not nesseraly created for. Sometimes people stand on the chair, use the chair to lock people out by placing it in front of a door, or a lion tamer can use a chair to tame lions. But the real purpose of the chair is to be sat on! The same is true with God and our relationship with Him in the view of holiness. God’s purpose for us is to be holy and set apart for Him. This seems very unatural for Christians in today’s world because all this time people have been disfiguring and tainting the good things God wants for us. The natural and normal way of a Christian is to be holy, just like God is holy!
Sometimes it is easy for Christians to remember the normal use of our bodies, and the purpose that God has calls for. So I just thought I would write this, with the analogy and picture of this amazing fruit tree.
