Absence Of Good Character ( 2)
INthe first part, we stressed the fact on how critically important the subject of character is in any relationship. We shall continue from there today and we shall also look at how we can develop good and godly character in our lives. Character is critically important, if we must make something good out of our relationship. Booker T. Washington said character is power. Dr. Myles Munroe described character as our greatest collateral.
According to the greatest Evangelist of the last century, Dr.
Billy Graham, character is everything because according to him, when a man loses money he has not lost anything. If he lost his health, he has lost something, but when he loses his character, he has actually lost everything. The all- important place of good character cannot be over- emphasised in any relationship. We live in the days of great challenges, getting someone that can be trusted has become a herculean task in our generation. The fact that someone claims to be born again may not even make any difference. There are many who go to Church today without a modicum of integrity in their lives and that makes it sound so unfortunate, especially when there is no much difference between the believers and the unbelievers around us. Having a good and godly character is beyond rhetoric, mere wishes or even prayers. We must deliberately work assiduously on ourselves until a better version of us emerges. The journey towards a good and godly character begins with working rigorously on our thoughts. We must be very careful about the kind of thoughts we accommodate in our hearts because the word of God tells us in Proverbs 23.7 that as a man thinketh in his heart so is he. Our thoughts determine our words and actions. Our thoughts have a way of shaping our lives. The truth is that our lives go in the direction of our thoughts. Accommodating the wrong or negative thoughts will also lead into a wrong and negative lifestyle or attitudes. We must not allow negative thoughts to grow and develop in our lives.
We must always do our best to get rid of them like plagues. Negative thoughts give birth to negative actions. When habits are unchecked, they become our character eventually. It is our character that eventually determines our destiny, be it in our relationship, career or whatever. It is character that determines the outcome, the length and depth of any relationship. You cannot be selfish, disrespectful, disloyal, uncultured, flippant and greedy and expect your relationship to work.
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