According to God, accomplishment is not good character, accomplishment does not make us “a good person”. Being measurably productive does not constitute high character or being “a good person”. It is not in how many houses we build, how many people we feed, how many ministries we start or how well we do the one we’ve got. Character is not created by the mighty empire we built/build/didn’t build. Character should drive our works, not our works driving our character. Even a serial killer can accomplish good things, consistently, so having good, measurable accomplishments is not a sign of “being a good person”. Always measuring whether we are “a good person” inspires us to lower our eyes below the Lord to man’s weights and scales which influence us to be someone we’re not, re-evaluating ourselves based on measurable production, according to corporate standards.

Godly character, personal holiness in balance with our activated-God-given-gifting re-enforces God’s work of expanding our persistence, competence, and confidence in Christ, empowering through Christ our inner fortitude, developing our social skills, which we are so desperately in need of. Character brings us upgraded self-esteem and a sense of being anchored, all taking us beyond our perceived sense of limitations, limitations which the world and the devil are both so busy re-enforcing.

When we worship the Lord in spirit and truth, there comes the lack of a quantifiable result that allows us to tap a more meaningful place that satisfies core needs and reveals the authentic person behind the masks of job and accomplishment …. Godly conception gives birth to Godly perception! Righteous imagination gives birth to righteous understanding.