Living up to our true character..

The word character literally means a unique mark or shape. Much like how letters in words are characters joined together to convey meaning, we were created by God in His image to not only exhibhit His character but also to exhibit our unique character or potential and make our mark in history! When God created Adam and Eve, He had plans for them, plans for them to live a life upto the potential that they were created for. The fall of man resulted in our true character to be marred by sin - not only robbing us from exhibhiting the character and holiness of God in whose image we were created but also robbing us from living into the full potential that we created for.

There is only one you - you are unique. You were created in this time and season to leave a particular mark in history that is not just of value here and now but also eternally in fulfilling God's purposes. That is why you have a particular personality, particular mix of giftings that makes you, uniquely you. There is no point wishing to be somebody else and coveting somebody else's gifting when all God wants you to do is to rediscover who you were created to be, working with God in restoring the true image of God back in you and uniquely being you and living out the expression of that. Esther realised the reason she was Queen was to save her people, the Jewsish people and she stepped up to embrace her destiny in God!

Esther 4: 14

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

God's redemptive work in us involves putting off sin and putting on the character of God through the help of the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4:22-24
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
In addition to being restored to His image of holiness, we also need to be restored to live upto our true potential! The Bible tells us that God created everything with "seed in it according to their kinds." (Genesis 1:12. This means that hidden within us is a potential that is able to produce more than we can actually see and is yet to come. God paid the ultimate price, His own life to release our potential. It is upto us to work with our Creator, to understand what we were created for, to build on it and accomplish it!

We have the God given potential in us to accomplish all that God wants to accomplish with His help. The psalmist says that we need to cry out to God and seek His help in fulfilling our potential.
Psalm 57:2- "I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills {his purpose} for me."
Jesus also said that the Father will give us whatever we ask in His name especially to accomplish His purposes.
John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

What makes you, uniquely you? What aspects of your personality and image needs continued redemption by God? Partner with Him and embrace your destiny and calling. Don't miss leaving your unique mark in history but work together with God in living upto your true potential - the purpose that God has redeemed you for!!