“…Dost thou still retain thine integrity…?”
Job 2:9
These are the
words Job’s wife offers in his affliction; interestingly enough she was never
afflicted in any way like her children or her husband. It’s possible that her
very presence caused Job even more suffering through either her chiding or her
sorrow over all they had lost. But
obviously she had reached a point of sacrificing her innocence and was willing
to encourage her husband as well to give up and accuse God. “Better is the poor that walketh in integrity,
than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.” (Pro 19:1) Integrity is choosing your thoughts and
actions based the values of God rather than personal gain. Lot’s wife challenge
him to give reason to continue in God; Job responds with his own challenge, are
we to only receive good at the hand of God, and receive no evil? (vs 10) Wisdom means knowing the right path to take;
integrity is choosing to walk it. Satan
endeavors to draw men from God, as he did our first parents, by suggesting hard
thoughts of Him; but, we must see as Job and overcome such temptation and
murmurings and appear the brightest in the furnace of afflictions, knowing
God’s grace has the upper hand.
Integrity is the
means in which one meets the demands of reality.
HSAY…Todd
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