5. Learn the Balance of Grace and Growth.
The discipline of developing character is not meant to embrace a lifestyle of legalism, lack of joy or the absence of spontaneity. In fact, well developed character increases your options, lowers your pressure, and enhances your joy.
The best way to approach the development of your character is to embrace both grace and growth.
Make the growth of your character, based on Jesus’ example, your primary objective. But when you fall short, give yourself grace, learn from your short-comings and take another run at it tomorrow.
Again, this is not meant as a “lower the bar” kind of excuse, it simply recognizes that we are human, and we’ll not get it right every time.
Great character is made up of doing the small things in the right way every day, and over a lifetime, this leads you to the big things that really matter in a way that pleases God, and you are proud of.
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