PROTECT YOUR GOOD CHARACTER.
(Donβt Permit Any Negative Situation To Rub Off On You)
TO THE BIBLE
2 Peter 1:5-7 MSG βSo donβt lose a minute in building on what youβve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous loveβ¦.β
LETβS TALK
Often times you find people who allow their good character to be corrupted or negatively influenced by the bad behaviour or ill treatment they receive from others. For instance, someone could decide to stop greeting a neighbour, because each time he greets that neighbour, he or she doesnβt answer. To make such a decision would mean that youβre allowing someoneβs bad behaviour change your good character. Never allow that happen to you.
If someone, like that unfriendly neighbour, took undue advantage of your good behaviour, itβs no justification for you to change for the worse. Maintain your good character. Keep on being the nice, loving and caring one; it will pay off. The question to ask before making a decision to change your good behaviour should be: βWas it right for me to do what I did?β If it was right, then you shouldnβt change it because someone else doesnβt like it.
Donβt be moved by the negative actions, comments or ill-treatments from others. Rather, respond in love to those who hurt or despitefully use you. If you act this way, youβll be protecting your own spirit and at the same time promoting love, harmony and unity. Make the quality choice not to allow someoneβs bad behaviour change your good character.
GO DEEPER
Romans 12:2; Philippians 2:15
SPEAK
I refuse to allow the inadequacies of others rub-off on me or change my disposition. Iβm who God says I am; a bright light, shining in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. With the Word of God, my mind is constantly renewed and I walk in Godβs will for me.
ACT
Highlight below some good qualities of one who has good character, and then declare that you have these qualities in you.
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