A MAN IS WHAT HE IS

"Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody 

C.S Lewis asserts that, "Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill-tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am."

In Our Daily Walk, F.B. Meyer adds, "The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice; not what we are when standing in the searchlight of public scrutiny, but when we reach the firelight flicker of our homes; not what we are when some clarion-call rings through the air, summoning us to fight for life and liberty, but our attitude when we are called to sentry-duty in the grey morning, when the watch-fire is burning low. It is impossible to be our best at the supreme moment if character is corroded and eaten into by daily inconsistency, unfaithfulness, and besetting sin."

In the light of the revelations pertaining to character, how healthy or sickly is your character. Will rats be seen when the 'suddenness' or 'provocation' befalls.
This is a clarion call to get off our oars, and work our character. Are you a person of character? What do you look like in the dark?



Let us pray: Father, help me build my character today, in Jesus name.

WISDOM NUGGET: Proverbs 11:1
"A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight." - KJV