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How Does Your Faith Affect Your Personality? to better understand ourselves and others. They are not intended to lock us in to one particular personality. i.e. We are not allowed to blame our sin on our personality type. We are not slaves to our personality, we are slaves to Christ. If Christ is changing us day by day, He will sand away our rough edges so that we will become more like Him.* Florence LittauerSo back to our jamming question: Does faith affect your personality? I believe it does. As I grow in my faith and draw closer in my walk with the Lord, He begins to transform me. No amount of self-help can compare in any way to what God can do. When I truly understand who I am in Christ
I was in the midst of some very real trials when my good friend Helen called to see how I was doing. Believe me, she got an earful. I very quickly and emotionally ran down a list of what was happening. By the time we hung up, I felt bad about unloading but she reassured me that was OK. I realized that sometimes my closest friends see the fleshly Debbie more often that I care to admit. (Sorry Helen). But when I abide in Christ, the fruit of the Spirit is more evident. In Romans 6, Paul writes about the struggle he had with sin and self. And Paul had even experienced a foretaste of heaven. I have the hope of heaven and life eternal with Christ but ...I struggle at times. My heart's desire is to allow the Lord to transform me. Only He can soften the edges of my natural personality. As I learn to trust and obey Him, He provides me with opportunities to use the gifts He has given to me. Those gifts will be used for His Kingdom purposes. As a result, it will be obvious to others that it's not Debbie but Christ in me. And then ...He gets all the glory. Blessings and love,  |
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I'm jamming again with Bonnie Gray of The Faith Barista . Our topic for this week is: