You and I possess personalities. Each day we mold our personal characteristics through associating with others, reading books, and responding to events in our lives. Our personalities are the most precious things we exhibit to other people.

Because it is a chronicle of man’s relationships to his God and his fellow man, the Bible is full of human personalities. Many of those personalities seriously crippled the human beings which bore them.

This morning I want us to examine our own personalities in the light of scriptural declarations. Are you graceful? Are you obnoxious? Are you sensitive to the needs of others? Or are you self-centered and narrow?

In the 4th chapter of First Samuel, there is a graphic illustration of the insensitive person. At the time of this chapter, the most important ele…