Pointers to Character development

It’s been a while since I posted on this medium. The reason being that I have been tied up by many different things. The last few weeks I have been watching how God prepared us (my family and I) for such a time as this. One of the things God enabled us to both learn and practice over the years has to been to get to know people by their character.
One preacher made a very sound statement that has catapulted me into what I have learnt over the last 5 years. This was the statement that he made “there is no devastation like an untrustworthy person”. Wow…… it might seem really hard to read that, but the fact of the matter is, that statement is absolutely true. God wants us to grow in wisdom so that we might make the right choices in life and also choose to trust the right sources.
Here are some pointers that might help you in discerning and developing your character as well as connecting with people in your life’s journey. I mean both marital and even social.
1. People’s reactions to men and women of God, reveal their character. Do I despise the people God has placed in my life or do I embrace them as God’s gift to me and for me.
2. People’s reactions or rather fulfillment of their own promises and responsibilities reveal their character. We might be very good at fulfilling those promises that we make to others, but how about those that we make to ourselves. Often time we tend not to honor those promises and responsibilities that we require of ourselves
3. People’s reactions towards hurting people reveal their character. What kind of a person are you? One who looks upon hurting people or one who does something to help hurting people?
4. What is your reaction to an instruction? Now this I believe is the something that we all have a hard time with. We really do not want to be told what to do, but whether we like it or not our character is formed and revealed by the instructions we choose to obey or disobey.
These are just a few pointers that I have put into practice in my own life. Trusting that this will help you as well. In no way I want to say that these are only pointers to developing character, but the above have helped me along the way.