Developing a Christ-like Character

While in the world, life is disciplinary. The Christian will meet with adverse influences on a daily basis. There will be provocations to test your temper (or maybe your touchy temperament), and it will be by meeting these in a right spirit that you as a Christian will develop graces. If injuries and insults are meekly borne, and insulting words are responded to by gentle answers, and oppressive acts by kindness, this will be evidence that the Spirit of Christ dwells in your heart and the Sap from the living Vine flows to your branches. We are all in the school of Christ in this life, where we are to learn to be meek and lowly of heart; and in the day of final accounts you will see that all the obstacles you meet, all the hardships and annoyances that you are called to bear, are practical lessons in the application of principles in the Christian life. If you endure they will develop in you a Christ like character, and you will be notably distinguished from the worldly way of living (My added thoughts with Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, page 344). Sherry