According to The All Nations English Dictionary, the word "character" refers to the part of a person that makes one different from anyone else. It reflects ones honesty, integrity and morals. It further shows ones motive, emotion, words, actions and relationships. Character includes both the visible and the invisible part of our identity.

A good example of character is a tree. A tree has two parts: one above the ground and the other below. What we can see is the braches and leaves, but the roots remain invisible. Character is like the roots that you can't see directly but reflects itself in the part of the tree that we can see. Some trees, while still having beautiful branches and leaves, collapse. Why? Because they don't have strong roots or may have sometimes dead roots. You might think that you have a good tree only until the root imposes its deadness on the entire tree.

Everything begins with being not doing. In the world that we live in today, you are as important as how and what you can perform. Therefore, people spend their entire life trying to be the best performer in town. Basically, acting does not demand you to have a real character as long as you can forge it. It is a double life. Whenever needed, you will pull out your mask. This kind of life-style will leave us empty, miserable, unsatisfied and hopeless. That is why God wants us to partake of His divine character through Christ Jesus.

This how God begins the process. 1 John 5:1, "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him." God's intention was not to help us act as God's children but to BE God's children. Though our journey begins here, our destination is "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians. 4:13). How beautiful and precious is our destiny?

A godly character enables us to run the race till the end. For instance, let's take an athlete who is determined to win the marathon gold medal in the Olympics. To begin with, he should be an athlete. Being one demands discipline to exercise their body everyday day, have a balanced diet, rest properly, persevere, and so on. Because of his goal, he will form certain behaviors which will lead him to character development. Unless he has the right character, his destiny will be jeopardized. Take heart! You will always achieve more when you lead your life with a godly character.

"For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;  To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues." (1 Corinthians 12:8-10)