Grace and peace to you. Here is the word for today.
📖 Psalm 15:1-2, David asks and answers an important question: “O Lord, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill? He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart.”📖
✅We need to look at integrity from God’s perspective. This is what God requires of those who desire to draw near to Him. Those who walk with integrity, those who do the works righteousness, and those who speaks truth in their hearts
✅ In the Hebrew language, the word translated as “ INTEGRITY ” means “complete, blameless, whole, wholesome, innocent, upright” and includes being honest and sincere. Although we usually think of integrity as simply being moral in what we do and what we avoid, it encompasses so much more.
✅ INTEGRITY in the New Testament concept is clearly conveyed with terms like “complete,” “mature,” “perfect,” and “purity of heart.” For instance, Colossians 1:28 says, “We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.”
✅For the Christian, INTEGRITY can be summed up as Christlikeness. Think about all that this term entails. Aside from Christ’s divine attributes, every virtue typical of Him should be increasingly seen in us, His followers. This doesn’t mean that we will reach sinless perfection in earthly life but that we will continually grow in maturity and obedience to the Lord.
✅ INTEGRITY also being an undivided person. In other words, who we appear to be on the outside to others is who we actually are in our innermost being.
Sometimes it’s the little choices in life that reveal our true character. When a cashier gives you too much change, what do you do? If your coworkers take advantage of the boss’s absence to shop online, check social media, or spend time talking, do you keep working or join them? You promised your kids something and you didn’t fulfil it.These days some people are working from home and there are some who are talking advantage instead of working, they are on their own business. Each of these situations is a test of integrity, which seems to be a lost virtue today even in Christians .
🤔 If we want to draw near unto God, and God to draw near unto us, the truth is , we need walk integrity, do righteous work, and speak the truth from the heart. Then we shall experience the blessings of God in our lives. May the LORD help us to have the virtue of Integrity in Jesus Name. 🙏🙏🙏
By Apostle Gift Sira.
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