S.H.A.P.E. (4)
"May he equip you with all you need for doing his will." Hebrews 12:21 NLT
The letter P stands for personality. Before a company hires a leader, they often do a personality profile to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Question: Are you compassionate toward people, or competitive with them? Are you a hard-driving type A personality, or do you have a more nurturing temperament? The worst thing you can do is to envy someone else's personality type and say, "I wish I was just like them." That's like saying to God, "You made a mistake when you made me." God will help you to change your conduct and strengthen your character, but you can pray until you're blue in the face and He won't change your personality. Instead, He will help you to recognize it and maximize it. The old saying is true: "Birds of a feather flock together." Eagles don't want to hang around with ducks. They don't want to live in a barnyard or swim in a pond. Their potential makes them impatient with those who cannot soar. Eagles are loners. Ducks, on the other hand, are team players. They fly thousands of miles from Canada to Mexico in a perfect V formation without breaking rank. They know how to defer to one another and care for one another. Before God assigns you, He designs you. He gives you the right personality to fulfill His plan for your life. So instead of putting yourself down or wishing you had a different temperament, say with the psalmist, "You...knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--how well I know it" (Psalm 139:13-14 NLT).
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
The letter P stands for personality. Before a company hires a leader, they often do a personality profile to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Question: Are you compassionate toward people, or competitive with them? Are you a hard-driving type A personality, or do you have a more nurturing temperament? The worst thing you can do is to envy someone else's personality type and say, "I wish I was just like them." That's like saying to God, "You made a mistake when you made me." God will help you to change your conduct and strengthen your character, but you can pray until you're blue in the face and He won't change your personality. Instead, He will help you to recognize it and maximize it. The old saying is true: "Birds of a feather flock together." Eagles don't want to hang around with ducks. They don't want to live in a barnyard or swim in a pond. Their potential makes them impatient with those who cannot soar. Eagles are loners. Ducks, on the other hand, are team players. They fly thousands of miles from Canada to Mexico in a perfect V formation without breaking rank. They know how to defer to one another and care for one another. Before God assigns you, He designs you. He gives you the right personality to fulfill His plan for your life. So instead of putting yourself down or wishing you had a different temperament, say with the psalmist, "You...knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--how well I know it" (Psalm 139:13-14 NLT).
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word For You Today
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