How To Choose Christ's Will for Your Life

With full access to the Self Compass, comes more freedom to choose Christ's will for your life.  

Instead of a single compass point rigidly exaggerated, there are four that rhythmically embrace the entire personality, yielding 360 degrees of creative choice in intrapsychic and interpersonal behavior. You find a freedom to choose which compass point is needed in a given situation. 

You recognize manipulative behavior and grow a “pure heart” in Christ, relatively free of ulterior motives (1 Pet 1:22).

Self Compass Living

Take, for example, a person choosing to outgrow the Narcissistic Boaster personality pattern by movement into the Weakness compass point:

• “Maybe I am not quite the prize I like others to think I am.”
• “Perhaps others are as entitled as I am to a seat on the subway.”
• “I could tell my co-worker what a good job he did on his presentation.”

This mobilization of love and humility allows them to feel a gentler pride in their accomplishments, now freed from the craving to be admired.

Out of this process surfaces the virtue of autonomy: a sense of independent self-governance without the edge of narcissism. With it evolves a more democratic leadership style that encourages others by offering constructive input.

• Redeemed Boasters use the self-confidence so evident in their own behavior to show esteem for others: building them up, rather than disdaining them. 
• The value of interdependence grows clear as they receive appreciation for group contributions, and in turn affirms and compliments others.
• Self-regard and poise grow more out of surrender to God than to our former conceit.

For every redeemed personality pattern, then, Self Compass living offers a rich behavioral repertoire grounded by the LAWS of personality as evidenced in Christ’s earthly life. 

The growing person functions within the certainty of these LAWS and grows more Christlike in the process. Yet each individual is free to uncover the unique stamp of his or her ineffable style.

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How comforting to know there is a compass of righteousness that clearly defines growth and wholeness in the Lord. Jesus says, “Those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God” (Jn 3:21). 

This is done imperfectly. Indeed, the self-correcting polarities of Love/Assertion and Weakness/Strength account for such fallibility. But when combined with a core reliance on the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, these rhythmic polarities yield a Self Compass for living, the Trinity way.

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