The Content of your character I Samuel 16:7
"But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” I Samuel 16:7
Martin Luther King Jr. in his “I have a dream speech”, said, “…I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
His emphasis was focused on the importance of his children living in a nation with upright character; and that the nation, in turn would not base their importance on their appearance and the color of their skin. Nonetheless, during his time the nation in this world of darkness was flawed and did, and still does judge a person on their appearance and the color of their skin—Even if you are black, white, Hispanic, Mexican, Asian, Indian etc…
Though that nation, being flawed in judging certain people on the basis of their appearance and the color of their skin; Martin Luther King Jr. still placed emphasis and importance for his children to have content of character in light of a nation whose flawed judgment of people was based and treated according to a person’s appearance. For he knew that to mold his children with righteous content of character would overflow out into a nation of darkness that the light of good content of character would over flow in a just perspective to view people as being made in the image of God.
The content of a person’s character must be rooted and seated in the person of Christ ruling your heart. If it is not rooted in Christ, then the content of ones character will be flawed, seated and rooted in the natural self and the world forces of this dark age, where people do and judge people by their appearance and the color of their skin. Regardless of the color, race wars will be predominate in this world of darkness as the heart is ruled by the heart of darkness.
The content of Jesus character is first of all pure, Love, full of joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control—when the content of your character is full of the life of Christ then your being will extrude the full measure of the character and content of Christ Jesus’ nature! Then you will learn the blessed truth of loving your neighbor as yourself, and treating others how you would like to be treated, loving others as being made in the image of God.
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