November 3, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Character of the Month Series

All my life I was encouraged and pushed along to take the next step, climb the ladder of personal success, or become a more influential person. I guess in some respects I achieved them all, but that is not who I really am or want to be.

There has always been a place in my heart to be ‘a nobody’. I like not being important or looked up too. I enjoy being a country boy with no reputation and no ambitious goals. I like the simple life and insignificant things around me.

I find myself now working on being ‘a nobody’. It is not easy switching gears—the world says to assert oneself, and yet I find that true personal peace and real self-confidence comes with my willingness in taking a backseat to everyone else.

You know, God is right. It is “the meek that inherits the earth”—that gets all that God has placed in this world that He made and is good. It makes no difference if I am rich or poor, free or in prison, young or old as long as I am a humble person.

If there is a character trait that is forgotten in today’s societies it is ‘humility and meekness’. I want to have ‘the forgot character’—the person that no one notices, the individual who wants no recognition, and the person who expects nothing in return.

For me, give me meekness or give me nothing. It is ‘the nothing that I am’ that truly makes me great. So, I am working on being ‘a nobody’. It is not boring and it’s the biggest challenge of my life. Indeed, this is the road less traveled—to attain to meekness.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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