LET YOUR ACTIONS BE CONSISTENT WITH YOUR CHARACTER

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”—Hebrews 13:8

 

Being consistent can be challenging, God wants us to be people of consistency, full of faith and truthfulness.  Consistent means to be reliable, to be steady to be dependable.  One of the greatest testimonies I have every heard was concerning a prayer group.  They never failed to come together to pray for the needs of their community and their church body.  Week after week this group of believers would lay aside the necessities of their own lives to pray for the needs of others.  This prayer group recognized the priority of Christ’s character—love lays down its life for another.  Our actions should be consistent with our character.

Society as a whole is sending the message that it is acceptable to say one thing and to then act a different way. This is contrary to God’s word.  John 3:16 is a good example that God does not act differently than His character.  God is love (1 John 4:8) now compare this with John 3:16:  “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal live.  Loved laid down its life for those who believe. 

You see God is consistent and He expects His children to be like Him.  We can pray or even expect others to treat us with a Christ-like attitude, but that does not exempt us from our individual responsibility of being Christ-like.  Does this require discipline?  Yes. Can we do it?  Yes.  Joyce Meyers gave an excellent example of being consistent. “Treat your family, partner or friends the same way that you would treat or speak to your pastor, or your teacher or anyone else that you have deep respect for. Be the same for everyone.”  It is simple, do something, do a little but just do.  And as you begin to make that adjustment in your life, you will be gratified to see the change in your own attitude towards yourself and towards others.  There is nothing better than having the peace, righteousness, joy and satisfaction of seeing yourself grow and mature as your actions consistently portray Christ in a hurting world.

 

Prayer—Heavenly Father I repent, and I ask You to forgive me for not representing You consistently with my actions, and for allowing the influence of the world’s system to be my standard of conduct.  Help me Lord to be consistent in my actions as I represent You to a hurting world, in Jesus’ name.  Amen.