Character

A man is measured more by his character than by his creed.

I read in an article this week about a lake, it stated..."excess sewage gradually draining into the lake changed the character of the lake." I thought how true and how it related to our Christian walk. We don't even realize we are changing.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn said in his Harvard speech, "Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people's right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil."

It amazes me how someone from another country can pinpoint and see what is going on right here in America. I may not be able to see the tree for the forest, but this guy gave an incredible speech that touches so many issues, but today Character was on my mind, so I thought I would bring these two statements up.