Blogs by Eddie Thompson
Integrity
12/9/2009 6:55:08 AM
Integrity is one of the most important parts of your growth process in the Kingdom of God. When you first get saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, the very idea of evil turns your stomach. Of course, there are things in your life you didn't even know were evil at the time. The Holy Ghost leads you into all truth in this area. There is that fist crash course in righteousness: no more cursing, no more getting drunk, no more stealing from the workplace. Then comes the process of discovering there were many hidden things in your heart that were evil all along. Things you thought were just personality traits. Wrong theology. Selfishness...nobody ever truly comprehends the depth of his own selfishness. At first we learn to walk the straight and narrow in front of church folk. Being in church reminds our feeble minds of who we are in Christ. Being around other Christians encourages our better angels. Then comes remembering who you are in Christ in the world, where you once went to movies that are not inappropriate, where you once frequented establishments that are not expedient now, where you once fought and scratched for the attention and the prizes of this life. Finally, the toughest part of integrity comes: Walking this walk in the privacy of your own family...in the privacy of your own heart. Those thoughts nobody else knows you are thinking: Do you meditate upon them, coddle them, enjoy them? Or do you take those thoughts captive and rebuke them? Do you take your sins to God for forgiveness or excuse yourself with comforting words that at least you're not as bad as some? Those things you are supposed to be doing in the privacy of your own home and closet: Do you pray? Do you read your Bible? Do you call family altar each night? Most people only see the tip of the iceberg that is your life. What about the rest of you beneath the surface? Is that part of you Christian too? Selah!
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