THINK ON THIS...
Imagine some scholarly historian in the distant future, probing ancient archive and peering into dim and dusty records for clues about a life in the past. Your Life.
As he lays all the puzzle pieces on the table – the faded photographs, the curled pages of a journal, the accounts of your driving records, your academic achievements and credits reports-he begins to draw conclusions about who you ware and you were all about. What factors might that researcher consider as he pulls together his reports?
If he is wise, he will remember that you are a product of your time. All of us are. That’s an important point to keep in mind when you’re considering anyone’s life. We cannot and must not separate a person from his or her times.
Our moment in history and our unique, individual, circumstances becomes the anvil upon which our character is forged and formed. We will either rise to the challenges of our time and make a difference, or we will remain stuck on the sidelines.
Its was no accident that you were born into this particular era, at this very juncture of history in our nation and our world. God is looking for a man or woman, who will yield to His “Workmanship” (Ephesians 2: 10). He is hammering, filing, chiselling and shaping Us! Peter’s second letter goes so far as to list some of the things included in this shaping process: diligence, faith, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, goodliness, kindness and Love (2 Peter 1:5-7). In a word ... CHARACTER.
Character qualities in His Children-that’s God’s relentless quest and HE won’t quit until He completes His checklist.
YOU MAY FEEL UNQUALIFIED, UNEDUCATED, UNTRAINED, UNDER-GIFTED, OR EVEN UNWORTHY YET, THOSE ARE EXCELLENT QUALIFICATIONS FOR GOD TO DO MIGHTY WORK!
HE IS STILL LOOKING FOR THE MAN OR WOMAN WHO WILL BELIEVE HIM, DESPITE WEAKNESSES AND DOUBTS AND BECOME A MIGHTY TOOL IN HIS HANDS ... AN INTRUMENT OF HIS PURPOSE, A PERSON WITH THE STRENGHT OF CHARACTER!!!
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