INTEGRITY

208 – Monday, July 27, 2009

Integrity is such a hard thing to maintain in our world today. Society has become so infused with ‘me-ism’ that integrity has all but disappeared from the scene. Many people confuse integrity with honesty when, in fact, they are related but not interchangeable terms. When a person is honest, whatever comes from their mouth is accurate, however, not always the whole entire revelation. Honesty is a large part of integrity which, by my definition, is always doing the right thing even when there is no one around to see you do it. Integrity is what is ebbing from our society – we are losing it in our children, neighbors, local leaders, politicians (they used to be referred to as statesmen when they really represented the locality in which they lived and served) and world leaders. There was a time when this country was forging itself that we all had to rely upon one another to hold everything together – our thoughts were on each other and what was best for the entire community, but it is all changing now!! Collectively, we no longer consider the larger contingency first, but have been reprogrammed to thinking we have to “look out for ourselves first because nobody else is going to do it for us”! That is not how it used to be, but I also can remember the times when it was unnecessary to lock your doors and everyone in the neighborhood knew everyone else and watched out for them. Now, murder and mayhem occur in plain sight and people turn their heads or walk across the street to remain uninvolved! Humanity needs a new infusion of integrity – always doing the right thing, even in the dark when no one is looking – we are not alone – Someone is watching and He sees and knows everything –

Hebrews 4:12 (King James Version) ^12”For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

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