Which is it, Events or Character for you?

When you watch a TV series, there are two parts to the story. There are the events that happen on that particular show. If it’s a police show, there are the crimes that need to be solved in that particular episode.

Then there is the part about the ongoing characters and how they interact with each other, and how they deal with their issues, and this is played out over the course of one season, right through all the seasons whilst the character is part of the show.

We can label these two parts as:
1 Events

2 Character development.

My favourite part of a series is watching the character development, and to a lesser degree the events.

God looks us like a TV series. He is there for each event and available for us through each of them, but God is like me and he is most interested in our character development.

We can have gifts and use them in events.And we can have fruit, in our developing character.

Don’t get too distracted from the big picture. Each stressful and difficult event in your life is being used by God to build character in you. When you can see that, when you focus on the big picture you will cope a whole lot better with life and have a more intimate relationship with God.

Here is a verse that puts what I just said into words.

Romans 8:28 New King James Version (NKJV)
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Let God develop your character in a good way, submit to the workings of the Holy Spirit and don’t allow yourself to be caught up too much with the events of life. People are counting on you!