TRAITS OF A CHAMELEON

 Sir,

I grew up in a society which requires every young man at an early teenage stage to be able to look after cattle without losing even a single one of them. In a quest to impress the cattle owners the young man is exposed to the secrets of nature and to different kinds of animals.

As a young man in that quest I came across a very distinctive and unique lizard which understood different colours like it knew the behaviour of feeding itself.
Chameleons have the tendency of taking the colour of each and every surface they may be found hiding in. If they are found hiding in a grey bark of tree their skin colour will become grey, when found hiding in green leaves their skin becomes perfectly green and blending with whatever object they decide to hide in.

Ability

Now, have you ever for one second thought about the possibility of human beings having the traits of a chameleon, having the ability to camouflage with whatever colour of the surface they step on. Is that how we should be, are we supposed to have frequent changing personalities. Then one would ask ‘what exactly are we talking about when we talk of personalities’? A personality is an individual’s success or failure to manage your emotions; think about someone with a cool personality and another with a moody personality.

Lifestyle

Christianity is a lifestyle that Christ established on earth and left disciples to spread throughout the world. Christians should possess one personality and that personality should be composed of love, truth and loyalty. So many times the world has been perplexed by a number of Christians who have changed their personalities because of the change in location or the company they keep.

So many of them have been diagnosed with snake tendencies by their spiritual doctors (pastors), because they pretend to be faithful to God when they are before other Christians. But immediately they are away from them their true colours of evilness are revealed. Some are capable of murder, some witchcraft, theft, drug abuse, terrorism, and some are even capable of establishing cults.

These are the Christians who change their personalities when they are found among a group of people who are non-Christians. They then take on the tendencies of the people they are with instead of changing these people; they develop what I would like to call the chameleon personality.

These are people who will laugh with you and pretend to love you in your presence but immediately they are with a different crowd they devise murderous plans. These are the ones who will secretly track your life every time they are with you and pretend as if they are happy for you. But immediately they depart from you they get into their secret places and start performing witchcraft against you.

Personality

Now, take your time and think about how you have portrayed your personality to different people. Is your personality worthy of an evaluation from God? Can your personality pass the test from the Lord, or maybe it shall be found among the junk personality bin which the Lord hates which are considered to be the ‘chameleon personalities?’

Siphiwo Jeshurun Lushaba

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