Best Personality

This world is full of ... personalities! Each one can be described as welcoming or abrasive, pleasant or obnoxious, gentle or harsh, and many other ways. For sure, distinctive differences and characteristics form each individual's disposition ... his or her personality. Genesis 1:26 gives us these words, spoken by the Godhead (Father, Son, Spirit): "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness." There's so much to this being created in God's image! Perhaps one of the most overlooked is how each person is created for the capacity to exhibit the personality of The Creator! Of course, we celebrate our uniqueness but that doesn't include an independence from and an absence of devotion to The One Who has given us breath to be the best image-bearer we can be. A great danger is when we allow our personalities to interfere with living-out the character of Christ. Paul wrote, "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me." (Galatians 2:20, NASB). Bearing the image and personality of Christ is a daily laying-down, a setting-aside of how my personality may direct me; and, instead it is a taking-up, an embracing-of He Who lives within me. It's a personality not of ourselves but of The Creator and The Savior and The Holy Spirit! Now, that is personality at its best!