GARDEN OF CHARACTER

     One Sunday I spoke at a local Church, I was speaking about "The garden of Character." In the letter Peter wrote, he listed some characteristics that should be added or planted in our lives.  He said to add to your faith, virtue and to virtue, knowledge and to that knowledge, self control, and to that perseverance and add Godliness, and to that brotherly kindness.
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      You can see what a great life we could live with all that. Wouldn't it be good to have one like knowledge, but can you see how important, self control added to knowledge is?
       I could be beneficial to the circle of life God has placed me in with a garden of those character traits. Everyone likes a flower, but enjoys a vase full much more.
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       Even Christians mess up and lose the spiritual battle in our lives.  But believers empowered with love and vision and God's power would be better than money, education, property and all the rest. Some  people that have money, education... "things".. still are a detriment to society.  In my life, with a new nature and the old nature, I need to plant that garden of character and it takes some daily or minute by minute work to feed and weed my life.
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       You can see in the picture, that garden wouldn't be there if it had not been planted or added to.  After that Service on that Sunday we gave everyone seeds to plant.. My wife did and soon there were a variety of zinnias etc.  Yep, for an attractive garden you have to plant the seeds.  Happy growing!