Crisis reveals character, this is the reason the Lord sends us trials so that we can see what is really on the inside of us. When we see a flaw as we react badly to a challenge it is the time to confess the sin or weakness to obtain strength from Christ to change.
Those who refuse to admit their emergent nasty reactions will not grow until they do. In fact, the longer a person resists admitting flaws the more hardened their heart becomes.
Often people will claim good things about themselves or even believe good things about themself but the reactions that emerge during a crisis will prove what their true character is really like.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
If someone blows up in anger as the first response to a challenge it is evidence that they have had anger festering inside all the time. Someone who does not have an angry character does not blow up no matter what is happening to them.
Think about it!
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