ADMIRE CHARISMA BUT GET CHARACTER FIRST!

There is actually a difference between what is done and what is supposed to be done. Truth is, you can ignore what is supposed to be done and continue, it might work but with time it will speak in effects.

Lately people go for Charisma without getting character let me use this opportunity to show you the difference and effects.

We live in a world where charismatic leaders are everywhere, I want to believe this is the most charismatic generation the world has ever seen, we are blessed with them. One of such is the person of Adolf Hitler, he made the German see themselves as superior and they rose against people. another person of charisma is Theodore Roosevelt, who possessed a powerful charismatic aura, from a wheelchair he ruled America, he said “the only thing to fear is fear itself” he made them rise up against rivals, a cripple with arthritis, that is what charisma can do, it makes people forget reasoning when you are in control or talk. Adolf Hitler lost millions of people during the war, even though they lost they still saw themselves as superior, even till date, that is the effect of charisma.
Charisma is very powerful. A man was talking and said charisma made him get married to his wife.

Charisma open doors, scriptures say the gift at a man makes ways for him, your gift there talks of your charisma, it's a conferred gift or power, it's your virtue that gives you influence and authority over others, it's your aura. Obama entered the Senate and was just given ten minutes to talk, but in that ten minutes his charisma provoked respect and influence in the house in the senate, in African Americans, that ten minutes is what made Robert Kennedy say “I will stand by this man, he is my next president” and even in his sick of brain cancer, he watched as Obama won. Charisma is a lifter, a promoter and attracts people to you. Your absence in the equation makes it incomplete. That's charisma.

Permit me to say that, as powerful as Charisma is, it is useless without character, charisma wil
definitely take you up, but bad character will bring you down, look at Tiger woods, developed so much charisma, but when the test of character came up, it brought him down, because of that it seems nearly impossible to win a golf event, what he used to win every time. Let me make it clear that the character tells you how high you will go, to know how far a person will go, look at the character. It's so bad that when people elect people into trusted positions, they disregard character but are swayed by charisma, but at the end, character begins to show and it determines the end of affairs. Your charisma is your gift or deposit, but our character is who you are, it's the container of the deposit. If you put your money in the wrong bank, you will definitely have a story to tell, the bible admonishes us to get wisdom, it will help build up character by teaching you what to do to make yourself a better person. (Prov. 4: 7)

Your character is your success insurance it can make or mar you.
Treading in the old path involves things being done properly, most times we complain when things work out really slow for us, and we blame God, at times we have the charisma but because of the character we are not given what we want because what is supposed to be a blessing will turn to a curse. If you give an extremely poor man who is foolish or inexperienced 100 billion Naira, what do you think will happen? It will kill him or he will run mad.

So you can admire charisma but get character first, it's the pathway to a successful life. (God bless you).
Emmebong Udoh
culled from The Teens Torch