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.

IN PURSUIT OF CHARACTER II

“Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.” - Woodrow Wilson

The subject matter of character isn’t one that should be taken lightly at all. However, Character isn’t found on trees, it is built over time. According to Woodrow Wilson, “…it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty,” it requires a conscious decision to develop. Character is at the heart of advancement and growth; personal or organizational. Hear what some notable personalities have to say about character. Calvin Coolidge said, “We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!” Then D.L. Moody had this to say, “Character is what you are in the dark."

According to Jerry Flint in Forbes, W. Michael Blumenthal, chairman of Unisys, talks about the mistakes he made in hiring: In choosing people for top positions, you have to try to make sure they have a clear sense of what is right and wrong, a willingness to be truthful, the courage to say what they think and to do what they think is right, even if the politics militate against that. This is the quality that should really be at the top. I was too often impressed by the intelligence and substantive knowledge of an individual and did not always pay enough attention to the question of how honest,