We all possess different temperaments, and we each have a personal problem for that reason. But the difference between the non-Christian and the Christian at this point is this: the non-Christian tends to be governed by his temperament. Now, when we are converted and regenerated our temperament, as such, is not changed at all. It is still there and it should be. Christians are not intended to be all the same, like postage stamps…The point is that the Christian is not controlled by his old nature. He controls it. he can harness it to become something very valuable because he will express his Christianity in his own particular way which is different from another.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Healing and the Scriptures, p. 105
I struggled with this fact early on in my Christian life. Does becoming a Christian mean a complete change in personality? Not so. But what does change is one’s ability to control that personality. The Christian life is not personality-driven, it is personality under the control of the person of Christ.
