CHARACTER, JOB’S SECRET

Post date: May 29, 2012 6:51:52 AM

Being focus will not only guarantee you success with time, it also guarantees you a secured future despite the present difficulties and pains, peace of mind, and joy in your present labor based on your expected hope. There are great things to be achieved in developing a good character as you walk to achieve your dreamed success.

What I love about Job was not the trouble he went through in the hands of Satan (no one will want that), his family and three of his very best friends, but his overall character before, during and after the trouble. This is the secret I want you to develop and endeavor to maintain as a Christian. Immediately after your salvation, character should be the next most important thing to focus on in building in yourself, before your God and before others. Knowledge can take you up, but definitely character will either sustain you there or bring you down. One of the strong pillars that sustained Job throughout the period of his hardship in life was his focused characteristic on maintaining his character before God and man despite his pains.

Based on his character, and without any inquiry from the devil, God openly bragged about Job to the hearing of the Satan. “And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Job 1:8. God did not do that because He wanted Satan to temp him or because of his name, his wealth, or what God will do thereafter, it was purely because God trusted the character that Job had built in himself over the years of consistent belief, trusting and walking faithfully with God. Most people do not even trust themselves even in little things talk less of others trusting them; you hear words as “I am human” so often, we know we are humans, but God is looking for a man with godly persistent character that He can distinguish amongst humans. Can God trust your character even in the things you are asking and waiting on Him for right now? When God trust your character, He will announce you, when He trusts your thoughts and actions, He will bless you, and when He trusts your dedication, He will multiply you.

This is where character is built and rewarded; from those little unnoticed and continuous positive actions within you, first in the secrets and then in the open. “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? And if you are not faithful with other people’s things, why should you be trusted with things of your own? Luke 16:10-12 (NLT)

This is the result of failure in character “What causes fight and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. when you ask, you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on pleasures” James 4:1-3 (NIV) 

Your continuous outward action is a true reflection of your inward character. True Christianity does not remain only on the inside of a person; it begins from the inside and is completely reflected on the outside through your displayed character in everything for the world to see. The world only needs to see your actions in the public in any situation to accurately predict your level of faithfulness and commitment to the things of God. Your character can make God to bless or deny you the blessings, character can make God to open the door for you or close the door against you. As you sincerely pray, fast and trust God for a blessing today, let God also trust you through your character. Character was the only secret that kept Job till the blessing finally came.