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Tomorrow will you be the same person of character at work as you were when you went to church?
A question? How many
followed the crowd to Golgotha only because
that is where the crowd was going? I
guess what I am saying is your character more than cosmetics.
As I
drove up through a five story parking garage this last week, I looked at all
the tonnage parked there: one heavy car after the other, and considered the
integrity of the building. Was it safe?
Why? Well, though it looked good
on the outside, the architectural steel that held it together could not be seen,
so how was I to know that it is actually safe?
I had to rely on the integrity of the construction company, and the
inspectors, and all the rest of the people responsible for the building’s
integrity...
But some buildings in this world are poorly built and the
infrastructure cannot be trusted. There
is no integrity in the building or the builders and the inspectors are bribed. And one day, for little or no reason, such
buildings begin to disintegrate. Or in
case of earthquakes and such, they totally crumble.
So what
does this have to do with your Christian character? Well, how is your emotional and spiritual infrastructure? That which cannot be seen from the
outside? Has your integrity been
compromised for a dozen different reasons?
You look good on the outside and I hope and pray you are largely
good on the inside, too (no one is perfect) and therefore with no fear of
collapse. But what if the crowd around
you keeps saying "Don’t be a sucker?
Everyone does it."...whatever "it" is? How strong are your hidden heart attitudes? What does your spiritual architectural blue
print look like?
John Wooden, former basketball
coach for the UCLA Bruins often said, "Be more concerned with your
character than with your reputation. Your
character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others
think you are."
As you consider with me this morn the
subject of Christian character, just remember
Fame is a vapor,
Popularity an accident.
Riches take wings.
Only one thing endures,
Character.
Popularity an accident.
Riches take wings.
Only one thing endures,
Character.
Benjamin Franklin was
committed to making himself a better person, so much so that he carried around
a little book with a list of 13 virtues that he wanted to incorporate into his
life. And each day he would concentrate
on a different virtue.
Willie
Nelson apparently at one time owned a golf course. He said the great thing about owning a golf
course was that he could decide what was par for each hole. He pointed at one hole and said, "See
that hole there? It’s a par 47. Yesterday
I birdied it."
A
question? If life were a golf course are
you busy turning bogies into birdies; poor games into championship games by
just rewriting how you keep the score rather than reworking how you are really
playing the game?
"Only the
disciplined ever get really good at anything." And certainly that is true of the game of
life. A case in point. One man said to another man seated by him in
church, "I’d give my life to know the Bible as well as you do." To which the other man replied, "That’s
what it has taken."
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