Courage... Commitment...Character

Just listen to the word of God last night which was spoken by Ptr. Peter Tanchi in CCF. I am not a regular member of CCF but I usually download MP3 from their site and had it installed in my IPOD. I usually listen to it when I travel from our home (bulacan) to the office (Quezon City), before going to sleep as part of my bible study habit. The topic was very nice and it made me reflect so much after listening to it. I may also add this on my new year resolution. He actually pointed 3 things in his topic and that is courage... character....commitment.

To note each... here they are:

Courage the definition of courage is actually not the absent of fear but the willingness to do the right thing not because it's popular but it's the right thing to do. In short, it's doing what you are afraid to do.

Yeah, I agree, it's really difficult to do the right thing to do especially when there are many oppositions. I wonder if there are still people in the goverment who could still stick to their integrity inspite that there are lot of people who opposed to integrity. I believe and I pray that are still some. It's actually sad when I reflect sometimes and just thought the the only solution to fight against graft and corruption is to sweep out all leader in the goverment and elect new ones by people who only deserve to vote. Not all people in the philippines deserves so. People who deserve are those people who only do the right choice!

Ok... there you go! I will start to believe again that change should start in me and then everybody else around me will change. I bet, this don't happen sometimes. For example, in our office, I always remind myself to be punctual in meeting, deadlines etc but no matter what, there are always people who are late and because they are late, meeting will not start on time. That's how people are in the Philippines. They paid so much empathy for the late comer than those who came on time so meeting will start late. Not a surprise, facilitator are usually the late comer.

Commitment, when you begin, finish it.

Very well said. The meaning really speaks for itself. Ptr. Peter also quoted that Jesus commited His life to us so to commit our life to HIM is a great privelege. Only Christians can fathom what this mean.

Character If reputation is what people thinks about you; character is what God sees about you. This is the very clear definition of what character is. I like what Ptr. Peter Tanchi had also quoted from Abraham Lincoln:

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, if you want to test man's character give him power" -- Abraham Lincoln.

So true! If you are not in the position, it is very easy to judge but when you are already in the position and have the power, it's nearly difficult to make decisions. Character is being tested most of the time. Mindset is one of the big contributor in our character. What we think, becomes our actions, our actions become our habits, habits becomes our character, character becomes our destiny.