WEDNESDAY April 2nd
Proverbs 10:9
‘Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.’
A walk in integrity
As God’s children we are called be a people who walk this world with integrity, which means with honesty and being a people who are reliable and trustworthy.
We seem to be living in times when integrity and honesty are lacking, who can we believe and trust and what can we believe and trust. In fact, it would almost seem to be that sometimes if you want to get on this world, that is to progress to positions of authority then lying is the easiest option. But not for God’s people.
Our text says that that the one who makes his ways crooked will be found out, it reminds me of the verse that we don’t hear quoted very often nowadays found in Numbers 32:23 ‘But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.’
Integrity should be part and parcel of our lives in every aspect of our daily lives, spiritually and morally, in business and in practise, God has set boundaries and established guidelines as to how we live as his children in a fallen world. Often, we see those around us living in certain ways, which run against God’s standards, as his children, we must choose to reject their morals and their standards and choose to live in integrity, reminding ourselves that whatever we try to hide from others cannot be hidden from God.
Application: We need to follow David’s example and continually come before God with this prayer ‘Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!’ Psalm 139:23–24.
1 Chronicles 29:17a ‘I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness.’
Psalm 90:8 ‘You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.’
Proverbs 11:3 ‘The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.’
Hebrews 4:13 ‘And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.’