You can build your Character: Andy Elmes

Good morning, Champion.

You can build on character

Acts 6:3 (Amplified Bible)
Therefore select out from among yourselves, brethren, seven men of good and attested character and repute, full of the [Holy] Spirit and wisdom, whom we may assign to look after this business and duty.

Here’s another great verse relevant to the importance of character development.

Here we see the early Church come to a point where they needed some staffing changes involving delegation. Some issues had arisen and some practical things to do with people care were not running as well as they should, so the disciples decided to enlarge their leadership team to make sure all was done well. Notice that, when they wrote the job description, right near the front was the need for good character, then came 'filled with Holy Ghost and wisdom'. They knew, as many employers have discovered since, that talent and gift are good but they can often be of no use if a person does not have good character. For example, you can be super-gifted but if you don’t turn up on time where you said you would or when you're needed to be what use is your great gift and talent to the moment?

Of course, the best deal is to have people who are gifted and talented and who also have character and integrity, so that they do what they say and don’t do what they know they shouldn’t. But if I had to pick one or the other I would go for character every time. You can teach people talents and skills but character is something they have developed, and it enables you to release responsibility knowing things will be done as they should, when they should – even when you're not looking!

If the disciples used this principle, and most employers do also, do you think God does? I do. I think when God is looking for someone to use He looks for the person of character, the person He can trust to do what He needs to be done over the person who can do it when they eventually get there in an “all-singing, all-dancing way”. Let's live to give God both – our talents and skills, but first of all good, solid character!

God bless,

Andy

Posted via email from Heath Baxter