Characteristics of Committed Courageous People

There was this sheet on the Candidates table at ACC, titled above, and as I read the characteristics, I pondered on how I want these to be displayed in my own life. A bit of a challenge... so i thought I'd pop them up here for you all!

1) They are willing to recognise and live with their own unfinishedness, knowing that they are subject to weakness and sometimes failures but that the best of them is good, so very good.

2) They know they have limitations but they also know that they can rejoice in the promise of redemption

3) Despite their fears, they constantly stretch their inner selves to take risks, to meet challenges.

4) They believe in their giftedness and know that the best way to thank God for it is to continually reach into risk, discovering and developing their hidden potential

5) They know how to laugh and to enjoy life even in the most difficult of time; they do not take themselves so seriously as to grimace and fret through each day

6) They take time for solitude- to thank and to pray in order to distance themselves and get a good perspective on their present situation

7) They have their values in proper order, recognising that people are always more important than material things, knowing that is is only the immaterial things such as love that they will carry with them into eternal life.

8) (which i personally think should be the first one) They nurture an intimate relationship with God for they have learned that the more they know this wonderful God, the more they will understand how deeply He cherishes them no matter what happens in their lives.

9) Finally, they have a vision of themselves that reminds them that their strength and power, their hope and trust, can never be mustered up by themselves. Rather, it is in God in whom they find their strength and often this God gives the needed strength through the encouragement and kindness of other human beings.

Interesting hey?!

For Him Alone
Ness :-)