Written by Carey Nieuwhof, a contemporary author, pastor, and podcaster.
Character isn’t just important—it’s pretty much everything. While knowledge puffs up and achievements fade, character lasts. That promotion you’re chasing? The glow fades before you’ve told the last friend about your new title. The platform you built? Someone else’s will be bigger next year…The hedonic treadmill is real. But character—the slow work of becoming more like Christ—that’s what transforms your legacy. If strangers on social media love you, but your kids don’t, you win at the wrong game. If you’re crushing it online, but your spouse feels alone, something’s deeply broken. Sanctification isn’t just an esoteric theological construct—it’s God chiseling away at who you are, not fueling what you do. Without character, what’s left? Just a pile of stuff heading to goodwill and achievements nobody cared about as much as you did. Your character, not your competency, determines your legacy.
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness, and to goodness knowledge, and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control perseverance, and to perseverance godliness, and to godliness brotherly affection, and to brotherly affection love. [2 Peter 1:5-7]
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