Can You Pass The Test?

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘Personality is the characteristic mark of the inner, spiritual man, just as individuality is the characteristic of the outer, natural man. Our Lord can never be described in terms of individuality and independence, but only in terms of His total Person— “I and My Father are one” (John 10:30). Personality merges, and you only reach your true identity once you are merged with another person. When love or the Spirit of God come upon a person, he is transformed. He will then no longer insist on maintaining his individuality. Our Lord never referred to a person’s individuality or his isolated position, but spoke in terms of the total person— “. . . that they may be one just as We are one . . . .” Once your rights to yourself are surrendered to God, your true personal nature begins responding to God immediately.’ CHAMBERS

 

Anyone ever told you that you have a great personality? What they are talking about is that the way you interact with other people is pleasing.  You put people at ease when they are around you.  Because of that, people want to be around you … they like having you around. My personality was shaped more by my step father, Don Pierson, than by my biological father. When I worked with him and his brothers, people would do often say, you must one of the Pierson boys.  I was not, but I reminded them of the Piersons. So in a way, he was in me, because I reflected his personality.  In  John 14:8-20, when Jesus was asked to show the disciples the Father, Jesus told them if they had seen Jesus, which they had, they had seen the Father.  He explained that the Father was in Him and that He, Jesus, would be in us.

 

What that means is that our personality .. our actions .. our words should be a reflection of Who is in us.  When we are told to not be conformed to this world but to be transformed … it means that we should not reflect the world but Jesus.  Are you drawn to the things of this world? Many are pleasurable .. but the test is not whether you like them, but do they reflect and bring glory to God. It is an easy test .. but it is a hard one to pass. Most of us hold on to things that give us pleasure or comfort that do not pass the “Does it glorify God test” Examine your heart.  Let the Spirit, that Jesus told the disciples would be with them and in them forever show you.  Let Jesus shine from you and God be glorified in You.

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)