Considering Your Character

Considering Your Character

In most stories, the main characters will undergo change. They start out as they are . . . then something happens. They’re sent off on an adventure, trouble drops on their doorstep, or some challenge must be overcome. As they seek to overcome the challenge or banish the trouble, they begin to change. At the end of the story, they are usually different people altogether.

While you aren’t the main character in God’s story, you are the main character in yours. If you’ve read this far, hopefully you’ve felt the call to adventure. Perhaps, you’ve seen that some trouble needs addressing, some challenges need to be overcome.

If so, expect that in living a story that matters, your character will undergo some change. Some of it will just happen. Your role in the change is actually a big part of the story itself.

Who you’re becoming matters, and that starts with considering your character.

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. —Romans 5:3–4