The Missing Gem

As of today, October 15th, I am eighty-nine years of age. Which leaves one with quite a bit of hindsight. From childhood I have been an avid observer of people and their habits. To say the general population is suffering from a severe lack of character would be an understatement. Surprising as it may seem to some, I distinctly remember the days when the unregenerate possessed admirable basic principles.

But now, sad to say, even professing Christians are in the same anemic condition into which the world has fallen. And I can personally see no hope of a transfusion anywhere in the near future that will restore such to a wholesome life. We are what we have been becoming! Contrary to what many believe, when Paul’s epistles speak of, “the last days,” and “latter times,” he is not referring to the condition of the world, but that in the Church. Oswald Chambers said, “We infect our surroundings with our own personal character.”

Just because someone does good in spasmodic spots in his or her life does not prove character. God says to His people, “Your goodness is as a morning cloud.” Character is characterized by consistency and persistency. Nowhere is character brought to a head as in a crisis. A crisis doesn’t groom character, it shows it. As an old preacher used to say, “Reputation is who people think you are; character is who God knows you are.”

“I have found character is much easier retained than recovered.”~anon

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