The Mystery of Character.

Written by Simon K. Sakpo

Character can be simply defines as the attitude of human being in face of the manifestation of life. Attitude comes from interpretation. Interpretation is born out of perception. And perception comes from knowledge. The kind of knowledge you have, is the kind of interpretation you will have. The nature of your attitude depends on the nature of how you interpret your perception.

Without knowledge, there is no perception and without perception, there is no interpretation which will be express as an attitude. The way you perceive life, is the way you express it. Before life can be expressed, it must first be perceived. Before you can perceive life, you must have certain knowledge of life. Without any knowledge of life, it will be impossible to have any perception of it. The knowledge you have of yourself is what you are manifesting.

 It is the knowledge that gives you the eye to perceive. So knowledge becomes the very element or the substance of your beliefs. Because beliefs are born after you believed in any kind of knowledge.  What you believe in within is what is express without through the three main doors such as: thought, word and action.

These three main doors constitute the channel through which you communicate with the universe.  When an idea comes into your mind and you believe it, you are already in communication with the universe before a word can be expressed or action can be made. An idea of thing will never manifest in your life if you do not have any similar belief of that idea within yourself. You have a total power to cast out or retain any idea that will come into your mind.  

Your attitude towards life’s circumstances is not a hazard. To determine the nature of your attitude in the enfoldment of life, check your own knowledge. As you know that knowledge gives birth to beliefs, this later becomes the commander of your life. This commander expresses itself through different attitude. Your behaviors, attitude in the face of life are only the expression of your beliefs.

When you have false knowledge, you will automatically have false beliefs and these false beliefs will be manifested as false or “bad character”.  Character in reality is human power of attraction. This power is in fact our ability to attract either good or bad into our life base on the nature of our knowledge. How this is possible?

Imagine that you are in need of a car that will help you have a better job. Your real intention behind a better job is to take very good care of your family. This noble intention will activate all divine laws to operate so that you may get the car. Take very good care of your family is translated into “have a car”. But your current situation doesn’t give you an option to buy a car. Then you pray for divine intervention in your situation.

The amazing thing is that anytime we call on divine intervention, He manifests Himself to help us. But we humans have the power through our will to either allow Him or not, to accomplish the reason of His presence. From that moment, our character becomes the doorway of divine manifestation. How?

Whatever happens in human life requires an active willingness of human before the thing can happens. Nothing happens randomly without the expression of our will. Many people express their will unconsciously.

Now, as a mother is ready at any given moment to feed her baby when he is hungry, God always responds to us. He is present in our life today and forever. He reveals Himself in most of the time as someone we already know or a total stranger to us. Why?

Because, if God can embody Himself as human being just to interact with us and to help us, we must be very, very careful the way we treat others. Or the kind of thought we withhold within ourselves against others. Jesus emphasized this by saying that what you do to the least, it was Him you did to. Read Matthew 25: 35-42.

 It is at the presence of others in most of the time, your character or behaviors play the crucial part of the game of life. Your characters or behaviors are like magnetic force that over shadows you. This magnetic force in and around you has a power to attract or repulse anything at any given moment.

Whatever you ask your God, will never falls from the sky to you. As I said earlier, God may use either someone you know or a total stranger to trigger the process for you to have the thing you are in need of. The key is your interaction with others consciously and unconsciously. All the negative emotions stored up within, will eventually emanate from you unconsciously.  It is this emanation that plays the game.

When hatred and anger are emanating from you, whoever comes to you may simply be reject by your behaviors; thus many have unknowingly reject God.  Even though divine intervention was at their hands, they unconsciously said no to Him. That why it is very, very important to check what we are storing up within ourselves.

When you blame others for your situation, you will also blame the person God is going to use to bless you to. Some are caught up in these negatives reactions to the point they are hurting themselves every time without knowing. They are angry, sad and cursing everyone including themselves. The goodness that will come to them to fulfill their need will be repulsed.

Our life is not fulfilled not because we are born to be like that; not because of generation curse and not even because we have no help from anybody. As the rain falls for everyone and the sun rises for all, as the divine intervention is for us. We as humans have the power to activate divine intervention in our lives or to deactivate. No need to curse anyone for your life circumstances.

Whatever is happening right now in your life is the tool you have to use to transcend the limitation so that you can emerge in the cosmic consciousness. Life that is flowing in you does not know failure. Life cannot fail. If life can fail, then the creator has failed. For we know that perfection, absolute good is the creator. And God never fails.

Whatever you may going through now can be fix. The problem humans have, is that they don’t like to uproot their problems. All they want is to cool down the pain. If for instance you are sick and the cause of your sickness is the presence of a certain virus in your stomach. This virus has to be removed.

The doctor you may consult has only one way to cure you definitively from this sickness. He has to perform a surgery to remove this virus from your stomach. But here you are telling the doctor to give you “Tylenol, Advil or ibuprofen” to cease your pain. What you may not know is that this virus can cause other problem in you. And your situation may end up be worst.

It is time to do personal check up of your emotions. Humans go to the doctor to do checkup of the physical body. What about the emotional body? Observe and see with no judgment what type of emotion is flowing out of you. Are you feeling angry, hatred? Do you have resentment?

Whatever may be the cause of all the negative emotions is not what is important. If your desire in this moment is to live with peace and joy, then that is the key for your new life. The first thing you should do is to forgive yourself, then forgive others.

Why it is important to forgive? Everyone act according to their knowledge. The knowledge you have comes from your understanding of life. If your understanding changed, automatically your knowledge will also change. To understand that you have the power to attract good or bad is good knowledge to use to change life circumstances.  This simple affirmation can help you to change things around: “I am a good person. I do only well to others. I only love and I attract only good in my life”.