Character

Character: (1) The combination of emotional, intellectual and moral qualities that distinguishes an individual. (2) A distinctive element (3) Moral and ethical strength.

This week I would like to address one of most important component of a man or person. That component is character, why character? What is so important about character? Let’s explore the meaning of character in detail. Character is the disposition, which is a person’s customary manner of emotional response. (Frame of mind). One operates from their mental capacity, which is linked to their emotions (i.e. anger, compassion, jealousy, envy, strife and lust). Most never reach any higher than their emotional level. The next level is intellectual or mental ability. As long as one is bound by ignorance, which is a spirit, there is no chance for growth, mentally or spiritually.

Satan keeps one in a state of ignorance, which is a state of hopelessness. The ability to achieve reasonable intelligence seems out of reach for many. To further understand intelligence, let’s define its meaning: it is the faculty of thinking, reasoning, acquiring and applying knowledge. This leads us to the next component which is morals. Moral is the ability to recognize and apply the principles of right or good conduct.

All of the above mentioned components are missing in a large portion of society, through no fault of their own. A person is the product of their environment. We learn from what we see and hear, starting in our formative years.These years 1-5 form how we see ourselves and our behavior toward our self and others. Most of us are victims of generational curses, sin passed down through the generations. Who shall declare this generation? Acts 8:33

How can a man see freedom, if he does not recognize it? Even if he sees it he does not reach for it, he has been in bondage so long; he believes that is his normal plight in life. He has lost all hope. How can he regain lost hope? Ironic as it may seem , it is regained through tribulation, which produces perseverance and perseverance produces character and character produces hope. Rom. 5:2-5 How do we regain this hope? Through massagers Of God, that is sent into this world to let us know that God loves us.

In the Old Testament it was the prophets that gave the people hope. This was done up to John the Baptist. He came to bare witness to the greatest hope , The Kingdom Of God. That hope is through Jesus Christ: through whom also we have access by faith into this Grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the Glory of God. Rom. 5:2
He established this hope by sacrificing himself for our sins. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Rom. 5:6 and 5:8. Then we can be born-again and receive his Holy Spirit, thereby developing character. So let us attain to this Hope that there is more than this world’s sinful ways, that death and the grave is not the end. He did this by His resurrection, thereby establishing Hope that through Christ Jesus, we too will be resurrected in the last day, Amen and Hallelujah!!!!

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Phil.2:5