Character Matters

When I was a science teacher we used to do the most wonderful and fun experiments. One of my favorites was almost the cliché of science, the egg drop.   In the ones we did it was to emphasize and teach the scientific method and so we would give them certain parameters and have them go to work designing and building the perfect capsule to protect their egg.   I would often get some amazing results. There were categories really. There were those who did it on the way to school, which involved gym clothes and duct tape (and oh yeah I need my gym clothes for next period), then there were those who really did their research. The thing is you couldn’t really judge which one would work just by looking at it. It had to be tested. Some of the ones that looked the worst, actually performed better. And others looked great on the outside and produced horrific eggstruction.   The character of the method of protecting the egg was only evident after the test.

This is true of our character as well. We might look good on the outside and all those around us might think we would do great in a test, but it is not until the test comes that we really find out. We are tested every single day. This world is fallen and sirens of temptation call to us from the shoals of shipwreck. They beckon us to just get by, to hold back, and to compromise. How do you respond to them?

 This week we will look at the character of Daniel and discover there some examples of how to live with character in a broken world.

Come be encouraged!

 Pastor Chris