“For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.” (Deuteronomy 30:16 NIV)
Does character really matter? The collective wisdom of the ages would say it matters a great deal. In both classical and biblical cultures -- civilizations that have been so deeply formative to our own -- people well understood there to be a direct association between the character of individuals and the well-being of the society as a whole. Individual character was essential to decency, order, and justice within public life. Without it, hardship was not far off. … Indeed, much of the history of the ancient Hebrews can be told as a story of blessing for faithfulness to God -- abiding by God’s standard of holiness -- and punishment for abandoning those standards.
-- James Davison Hunter in “The Death of Character”
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