Shakespeare’s To Be or Not To Be is still a relevant question, especially among God’s people. Today, whether it be the local paper, or the local pulpit, it seems what you do is more important than who you are.
The “how-to” books promote doing, not being. We do not want to take the time to become some-one. We are too busy doing some-thing. God is preeminently interested in who we are. The world, and religion, is only impressed by what we have accomplished.
“Being” is so important because it flavors all we do. This is why, when God judges His people according to their works, it will not be on the basis of what size it was, but “what sort it was.” What we have done will be traced back to who we are. All works are birthed by motive.
When I stand before my God, I care not if my spiritual resume is void of great accomplishments; but I do pray it will say, “He was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost.”
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