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Temperament is the unseen force underlying human action, a force that can destroy a normal and productive human being
unless it is disciplined and directed.
Temperament provides both our strengths a...
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Although we like to think only of our strengths, everyo...
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God has given Christians the Holy Spirit, who is able to improve our natural strengths and overcome our weaknesses—as we cooperate with him....
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Temperament is the combination of inborn traits that subconsciously affects all our behavior.
It is a person’s temperament that makes that person outgoing and extrovertish or shy and introvertish.
Character is the real you.
“the hidden person of the heart” (1 Pet. 3:4). It is the result of your natural temperament modified by childhood
training, education, and basic attitudes, beliefs, principle...
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It is what you really are when there is no one else around.
Personality is the outward expression of oneself, which may or may not be the same as a person’s character, depending on how genuine that person is.
“Out of it [the heart]
spring the issues of life” (Prov. 4:23).
temperament is the combination of traits we were born with;
character is our “civilized” temperament;
personality is the “face” we sho...
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Men and women may have the same temperament, but the extent of emotional expression may vary.
“You can use your background as an excuse for present behavior only until you receive Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. After that you have a new power within you that is able to change your conduct.”
ChlorSan wives often make preoccupied lovers who need to realize their husbands need their
affection.
relates directly to this temperament’s most vulnerable characteristic, a razor-sharp, active tongue. A ChlorSan’s
victory over cruelty and sarcasm and
60 percent Choleric and 40 percent Melancholy is extremely industrious and capable.
Equally as great as their strengths are their weaknesses. ChlorMels are apt to be autocratic “dictators” who inspire admiration and hate simultaneously.
They are usually quick-witted talkers whose sarcasm can devastate others.
ChlorMels can harbor considerable hostility and resentment.
Unless they enjoyed a good love relationship with their parents, they find interpersonal relationships difficult, particularly family relationships. ChlorMel parents can be overly strict disciplinarians.
They combine the hard-to-please tendencies of the Choleric and the perfectio...
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They possess strong leadership capabilities, enjoy being “chairman of the board,” and never come to a meeting unprepared.
MelChlors are revealed in their minds, emotions, and mouths. They are extremely difficult to please.
Their mood follows their thought processes.
The Melancholy and the Choleric are the two basic temperaments haunted by self-persecution, hostility, and criticism.
Their penchant for detailed analysis and perfection can make them nitpickers who drive others up the wall.
They not only “emote” disapproval, but also feel compelled to castigate others and correct their mistakes—in public as well as in private.
This person, by nature, desperately needs the love of God in his heart, and his family members need him to share it with them.
MelChors don’t live up to their amazing potential because of their internalized spirit of anger and revenge. And yet many of the great men of the Bible show signs of a MelChlor temperament.
They are prone to be reserved and rarely volunteer their opinion or ideas. When asked, however, they almost always have an opinion, and, when offered, their opinions indicate they have analyzed the situation quite deeply. They do not waste words but are usually very precise in stating exactly what they mean.
Strengths carry corresponding weaknesses, so face them realistically, then let God do something to change them.
Our strengths or weaknesses of temperament prevail by our choice.
Christians can overcome natural weaknesses and enhance their natural strengths through the supernatural filling of the Holy Spirit.
understand that your natural temperament influences almost everything you do. It causes almost all of your actions and reactions. As we saw in chapter 3, the way you eat, drive a car, keep your bank balance, and pursue your hobbies is a reflection of your temperament. That means you had better consistently direct your temperament into the best life-style
Otherwise, your temperament will subconsciously direct you.
“Happiness is something that just happens because of the arrangement of circumstances, but joy endures in spite of
And from the same prison cell he said, “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content” (Phil. 4:11). Anyone who can rejoice and be content while in prison has to have a supernatural source of power!
God does not like doubt and dejection. He hates dreary doctrine, gloomy and melancholy thought. God likes cheerful hearts. He did not send His Son to fill us with sadness, but to gladden our hearts. Christ says: “Rejoice for your names are written in heaven.”
There Paul describes not only the works of the natural man without the Spirit, but also the natural emotions: hatred, contentions (strivings), jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, and envy (vv. 20-21).
Circumstances—subject to change—should never be the base of our peace. (And becoming a Christian does not spare us from difficult circumstances.)
You see, in the sovereign plan of God he has chosen never to violate the right of man’s free choice.
To be sure, a Christian life when filled with the Holy Spirit will produce fruit.
