Thursday, May 7, 2015

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER

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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.

          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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