It’s been one week since I started the DISCIPLESHIP DARE. For the past 7 days, the DARES have challenged my COMMITMENT to Jesus Christ. Today, starts a fresh theme of DARES challenging my CHARACTER.
Matthew 5:1-3:
Now when He saw the crowds, He went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to Him, and He began to teach them saying, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Today’s Character dare:
The foundation for the transformation of your character is sacrifice. Living a life marked with great sacrifice calls for an extreme alteration of your character. Today, prayerfully resolve to live a life marked with godly character no matter who challenges you to be anything other than a pitcher.
The foundation of my faith is solid. That was confirmed as I did the first 7 dares challenging my commitment to Christ. But what I’ve built upon my foundation, well, that’s another story!
In the past few months, God has really been pointing His finger on areas of my character that are…might I say, shaky. They are areas that are not what they should be. God knows it. Others around me know it. I now know it. I want to live for Christ, as He’s called me to live, but I can’t do it without working on these areas of weakness in my character.
I am grateful for my circle of accountability, my church family. I am grateful for their honesty, their challenge, their belief that God has something more for me. It’s through their careful rebuke and correction, that I have been walking through this process of building a stronger character that is pleasing to the Lord.
I want to live a life of sacrifice, a life that is “sacrificial” for God, but there have been cracks in my character that have prevented me from being the “sacrifice” I desire.
Thank God He is so forgiving and allows us to rebuild.
I resolve to live a life marked with godly character. I take this DARE!
(For more information on Jess Bousa’s “The Discipleship Dare”, please go to http://www.thediscipleshipdare.com/)
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