Topic: Living With Integrity (Part 1 of 2)

Psalms 25:21 "May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you." (NIV)

Living with integrity and living in a moral and ethical manner has advantages. When things go bad in life, we tend to forget about living with integrity. In adversity, we can get desperate. In adversity, we can start to do immoral things we would not normally do. However, having integrity means we stay the same person no matter what happens. When we have integrity, no matter how bad things get we do not come unglued. To have integrity requires an inner strength found only in God. When everything has come apart in your life, there can be a time when you have no inner strength. At times when things go bad you need the strength of God. The reason integrity is so important is because integrity keeps you more "together" or integrated. Integrity keeps you from coming apart. We get our integrity and our inner strength when we have no strength by trusting God to work everything out. We must always trust God to work His will in a way glorifying Him in all we do in every circumstance. We get integrity when we trust God to work everything out to our heavenly benefit. When things go bad in life, it may seem God is either against us or at the very least is not for us. Many times it seems God does not deliver what we want, when we want it. However, let us tell the truth. God is not an angry or vengeful person. God only wants the best for us. In His time, in His wisdom, and in His plan we can find enormous hope every day of our life. In God, you can always trust, and in this trust you can become a person of integrity.

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