May 27 • 📚 Discipleship
Character is Better than Talent
Most people have heard the story of the Tortoise and the Hair. The fast Rabbit, loosing a race to the slow but steady Turtle.
Slow and steady is the path of wisdom, diligence and patience. Fast and immediate is the path to destruction.
You might say, well Everett, I have an opportunity where I can do both. Ok...
I have a friend that invests in Forex and he used to chase big wins and he would loose money, but now he just looks for consistent small wins. He calls them base hits. He's not looking to get rich off of one trade, he has a limit, wether he's up or down, once he crosses a threshold he pulls his money out.
i'll be honest. He was showing me some of his trades and I was thinking... man if you would have stayed in a little longer, you would have made so much more...
Sometimes the fast and easy life still entices, but his self-control and wisdom cannot be argued with.
What does this have to do with you?
Just because you are talented does not mean you're going to go the distance. You need more than anointing, more than charisma. You need Character, self-control and wisdom.
Character is what gets you to service early to serve when no one is watching. Character is the discipline in the secret place. Character is the obedience even when you feel like you know a better way.
Everyone knows someone who should be in the NBA but theyre still playing in the neigborhood talking about when they played ball with a legend in High School.
Its the Charismatic Drug addicts who were the most talented but they couldn't control their urges.
Its the intelligent know-it-alls that could have been great, but never learned to submit to authority.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote an amazing book called: Outliers: The Story of Success.
And in it he followed a number of Geniuses from childhood into adulthood. He found that many of them never did anything great, even though they started out ahead of the pack.
Your success is not in your gifts... its in you Character.
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