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Daily Devotions: Integrity Part 2

April 1, 2010 By

Integrity Part 2

Over the past several years, America has been hit with a number of high-profile ethical lapses. These failures have involved business leaders, priests and pastors, politicians, as well as a four-star general in the military. Each one of these individuals were excellent in their field. Nonetheless, their moral choices revealed that no amount of “excellence” can overcome a soiled character.

If you are serious about integrity, then let me encourage you to regularly ask yourself these questions:

Have I been completely honest today?

Have I been met my financial obligations?

Have I acted in an appropriate way toward members of the opposite sex?

Have both my private and public life been above reproach?

Have I fulfilled my commitments without compromise and with a willing spirit?

Have I met with the Lord today?

Have I indulged in unwholesome thoughts or sexual images, or fostered uncharitable feelings toward others?

Have I harbored unconfessed sin or unforgiven hurts?

Notice 2 Corinthians 13:5 (The Message)  with me, Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. Don’t drift along taking everything for granted. Give yourselves regular checkups. You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay, that Jesus Christ is in you. Test it out. If you fail the test, do something about it.

Billy Graham once wrote: “Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. We must constantly strive to keep our integrity intact. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

This has been Pastor Michael Jackson of Janesville’s New Life Assembly of God with today’s LIFELINE!

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Daily Devotions: Integrity Part 1

March 31, 2010 By

When a person thinks of integrity, he or she generally focus’ in on morals, ethics, or character. To be sure, it is all of this and more. When I think of integrity, I think of something that is whole, complete. It’s from a root word that means intact. It means our hearts are not divided. There is no hidden agenda. It means doing the right thing even if no one is looking.

Think of a piece of clean, clear, pale of glass. Such a piece of glass will look the same from both sides. You can turn it around, turn it upside down, flip-flop it, it doesn’t matter. It is clear and complete regardless of the angle. The glass has integrity.

A person of integrity manifests this same singleness. He doesn’t, for instance, have a clear public side and a shady private side. He doesn’t have a Sunday face that is directly opposite of his weekday face. She doesn’t carry on the work of the Lord on one hand and the work of the devil on the other. Integrity speaks of a singleness of purpose, singleness of will, singleness of heart.

Babe Zacharias was a professional golfer. On one occasion she penalized herself two strokes when she accidentally played the wrong ball. “Why did you do it?” asked a friend. “No one saw you. No one would have known the difference.” “I would have known,” replied Zacharias. Babe manifested integrity. She was true both in public and in private.

Proverbs 10:9, “The man of integrity walks securely. He who takes crooked paths will be found out.” One of the benefits of walking in integrity is confidence. You don’t have any skeletons in your closet. You don’t have anything to hide.

This has been Pastor Michael Jackson of Janesville’s New Life Assembly of God with today’s LIFELINE!

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Daily Devotions: Success

March 14, 2010 By

I believe that the Lord is calling each and everyone of us onward and upward. I believe that He is calling us to walk in the paths of greatness. As children of the most high king, I believe that we are being called to be the very best students at our schools, the very best employees where we work, the very best citizens in our communities, the very best at whatever we do whenever and wherever we do it.

Zig Ziglar once stated, “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not in the getting; in the trying, not in the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”

Ziglar, Zig. ThinkExist.com Quotations. Available from Internet, ttp://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/zig_ziglar/

One of my favorite examples of success is Sir Winston Churchill. He had to overcome tremendous obstacles including the rejection of his father and a certain distance between himself and his mother. Nonetheless, early in his life Churchill decided to excel. He wanted a life not just an existence. He wanted to make his mark, do his bit, play his role, and to know that he had “walked in the paths of greatness.” To merely exist was no bet­ter than death. He simply believed that one can either watch history or else make history. It was up to him. He choose to be one of those who made history.

Life is full of choices. Why not make a choice to be all that God intended for you to be? Why not chose to make a difference today?

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