Highlight Teachings

Your personality is what makes you ‘you’- UNIQUE. However, it has two sides – POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. Many people focus only on the positive side of their personality but distance themselves from their weaknesses. This section is to highlight that we should embrace both our strengths and weaknesses of our personality, so that we can be balanced and whole in life. Normally, we hide our weak parts, so others don’t see it. These are things you are ashamed of, that you don’t want to tell people. God made you that way for a purpose. Like Paul said, ‘I was given a thorn in the flesh to keep me humble’. It was the thorn that helped him to be humble and not to think highly of himself. It is noteworthy that personality is different from character. So lying or stealing is not a personality issue but a character issue. We should embrace these weak side and let God use it for His glory. These two sides of personality can be illustrated as: 1. The Negative and Positive poles of electricity: in electricity, for light to come up, both the negative and positive poles must work together, if not, there will not be light. So if you embrace only your positive side, there will be no light. Hence you must embrace both sides of your personality, to be whole/ complete. 2. In the old times, to print pictures, you had to take the negative pictures to the darkroom to develop and print out the picture. Until you embrace your weaknesses, you will not be fulfilled. So what are the personalities you are ashamed of; things that God created in you (not lying, stealing, adultery)? For instance, Peter was quick to speak. This personality must be embraced and developed and placed in the hand of God to be used for His glory. Do you know the parable of the water bearer? A water bearer had two large pots, one hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and the other pot was perfect. At the end of the long walk from the steam, the cracked pot always arrived only half full for two years, this went on, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his master’s house. The cracked pot felt sorry for its poor delivery, but unknown to it, the linking water from the crack was used to plant and nurture beautiful flowers used to adorn the master’s house. The water bearer showed the cracked (imperfect) pot the beautiful flowers on its path. 3. Embrace it and give it to God. From the water bearer’s story, we can see that God uses our weak areas for His glory. So we can see that nothing goes into waste in God’s economy. He knows how to bring everything to His glory. What is the negative part of your personality you need to accept and give it to God to use for His glory? .