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Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter and Personality Tests

Personality tests and Easter don't seem to have a lot to do with each other. To me Easter is a wonderful celebration of LIFE! I live in a place where there are four seasons. One good thing about experiencing a cold winter each year is watching the earth come to life again each spring, year after year. This is all symbolic of the Creator's greatest gift of life to us. Not only did God give us our physical lives, but he saved our spiritual lives from darkness by paying the ultimate price--through suffering and death he paid the price for our sins. Some people believe it, some don't. But truth is never based on numbers. It just is.

Because of my interest in personality, I have given thought to the personality of God. No surprise: I don't know...I can't explain what His personality is. Obviously, it must be perfect because so is He. I imagine that perhaps that means that God incorporates all the attributes and temperaments we have, but uses the positive strengths of each of them at any given moment, calling upon that attribute that is best fitting for the situation. So on the Myers Briggs
personality test would he give the exact same weight to all letters and not favor any certain assessment over another? On the color test would he be a little (or a lot) of all of them? On others would he just be a harmonious blend of dominant, amiable, anyalytical and expressive?

Or maybe God has none of the tendencies toward temperaments that we have that often cause us to handle situations less than perfectly. Maybe He had attributes and temperaments while living here on earth and now all tendencies toward weakness have been overcome so personality becomes a mute point. Like I said, I don't know. But it's an interesting exercise in thought and wonderment.

Bottom line is, it doesn't matter. Maybe personality tests are just a way for mere mortals to understand themselves and life a little better. Nothing that applies to God. Perhaps each question on a personality test would be too shallow to render anything significant if a perfect being were to take it.

I'm grateful that I know that in sunshine and shadow He is there to assure and smile upon us.

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