"The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity."
If you
want to make a change in the new year, here’s a good place to start. When
is the last time you made an expensive decision because it was the right thing
to do? When did you last sacrifice what
you wanted simply because of honor?
Integrity
is a lost art, because it calls for absolutes. There is nothing about integrity
that is fluid. It is not relative. There is no room to negotiate. It is permanent
and unyielding.
If
integrity is just one of your options, you won’t take it…it must be your only
choice. It is not a popular choice
either, and at times it is called radical, intolerant, unyielding, and other
names that illustrate the absence of a societal moral compass.
So,
you must choose.
Either
you live out truthfulness, honesty, righteousness and unselfishness as
established by God. Or you determine your actions relative to situations and
your assessment of risk and reward.
It is
your choice, but the verse is clear.
Either your integrity will guide you, or your duplicity will destroy
you.
Whether
it is your taxes, your marriage, your job, or your personal life … live with
integrity. It is easier to work hard to
do things right, than to live with the results of doing them wrong.
Set
God’s standard as your True North, and start walking.
"Beware of
no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us." - Charles
Spurgeon
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