Consistency

Consistency is really just being what you ought to be--not being influenced by the situation to change your behavior. If we are Christ-like, we must be consistent. "For I am the Lord, I change not." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." God never acts in any way inconsistent with His character.
And that's the key to our consistency--God's character. The problem is that we spend our entire lives trying to sanctify or "spiritualize" the natural man--our character. That's impossible. Why else would the Lord give us a "new creation," the perfectly consistent life of God to live and reign within our hearts? The only way for me to live a consistent godly life is to quit trying to make myself more Christ-like and to surrender to the will of the life of Christ that is already in me in the person of the Holy Spirit. The natural man--that's me--can never act consistent with God's character. The Holy Spirit--God--can never fail to act consistent with His character.

"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me."