Teach Us to Number Our Days Designed by God - Personal Style

Teach Us to Number Our Days

Designed by God - Personal Style

God uses the hard times as well as the good times

to develop your personality.

Your temperament or personal style

reveals the “HOW” of your life.

God determined “how” you would relate

to the world around you before you were born.

Anyone with a little knowledge about temperaments

can quickly identified them even among preschool children.

If you have never done it before,

you might find it fun to see

which Bible character you are most like.

Would it be Abraham!

A great patriarch;

but who was, at times, indecisive and faithless? 

Or, perhaps it is Moses?

Another great leader;

but prone to anger and moodiness.

Peter?

A great talker and charming;

but erratic and often spoke/acted without thinking.

Maybe Paul?

A brilliant scholar and missionary;

but often unloving and controlling.

God gave us rich examples

and illustrations in Scripture.

Examples of believers

who were just like us.

Who were infused with His power

to do great things.

As we get a peek into their lives,

we can see how God used them.

God recorded His work in their lives

so that we might get a better picture

of how He might be working in our lives.

Whether you are a Sanguine like Peter,

a Choleric like Apostle Paul,

a Phlegmatic like Abraham

or a Melancholic like Moses…

The Lord is working daily in your life

to develop your temperament for His service.

Every temperament has strengths and weaknesses.

And throughout your life,

God has been working on your strengths.

Take a few minutes to number the events in your life

that were used to shaped your personal style.

Scripture Reading

Psalm 139:13-16 The Message

13 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;

you formed me in my mother's womb.

14 I thank you, High God — you're breathtaking!

Body and soul, I am marvelously made!

I worship in adoration — what a creation!

15 You know me inside and out,

you know every bone in my body;

You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,

how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;

all the stages of my life were spread out before you,

The days of my life all prepared

before I'd even lived one day.

(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)