“Cherish your wife, love her in such a way she feels like your most valued blessing from God—His beloved daughter.”
Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – July 22, 2022
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Proverbs 31:10
The most important value of character is it solicits the blessing of your Savior Jesus Christ. He creates character and then He blesses His creation. As described in the famous Proverb above, how precious is a wife of noble character. Cherish your wife, love her in such a way she feels like your most valued blessing from God—His beloved daughter. Yes, the Lord’s favor and success rests on a life of character, so treasure it wisely.
When was the last time you took an eternal audit and valued your character? What is the worth of your honesty, your hard work, your love, your servant leadership, your accountability, your generosity and your faith? Just as exercise and diet contribute to a healthy body, so character contributes to the health of your soul and emotions. Because character is like precious jewels, wisdom keeps it secure in the lock-box of your life. Assign worship and obedience as two sentinels poised at the entrance of your heart and mind. These loyal friends keep Satan from snatching away even a portion of your hard-earned character. Your investment in integrity is worth aggressive protection.
“May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Oswald Chambers describes how character is revealed by a crisis and the necessity of obedience and worship for your character to be molded by God: “If you are not doing the task that is closest to you now, which God has engineered into your life, when the crisis comes, instead of being fit for battle, you will be revealed as being unfit. Crises always reveal a person’s true character. A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness. Everything will be out in the open, and you will find yourself to be of no value there if you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions in your own home. If your worship is right in your private relationship with God, then when He sets you free, you will be ready. It is in the unseen life, which only God saw, that you have become perfectly fit. And when the strain of the crisis comes, you can be relied upon by God.”
In your business, home or ministry it is of extreme worth to define the values that hold accountable everyone involved. Values are to a company what character is to an individual. What is the character you expect in the workplace and at home? Respect, excellence, thoroughness, trustworthiness, balance and faith-based may all be behaviors that reflect the character of your life at work, home and church. Seriously consider collaboration with all invested parties and define the desired character of the enterprise. A life, business, ministry or church full of character is positioned to be blessed by God.
“When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned” (Genesis 39:3-4).
Prayer
Heavenly Father, I pray my character reflects the heart of Christ through joyful obedience and grateful praise to you, through Christ’s love and in Jesus’ name, amen.
Application
What value does the Lord place on my character? How can I wisely protect this gift from God?
Related Reading
Genesis 5:24; 6:9; Romans 6:11; 1 Corinthians 1:30
Worship Resource
Shane & Shane: Praise to the Lord
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