Maintaining Your Integrity

Integrity! Do we have it? It has been said, “Integrity is being the same person in private as public; we are inwardly what we are outwardly.” Of course, integrity isn’t just about having morals. Integrity has the idea that there are no cracks in one’s character. For inanimate objects, integrity means having no cracks in the materials that comprise the object. Those cracks will be exposed under intense pressure or heat. Job was under intense pressure. He was suffering a lot. And as we find out in Job 27 this Sunday, Job resolved to have integrity during that intense pressure. It reminds me of a favourite quote my dad would use of Bob Jones Sr., “A crisis does not make a man; it reveals a man.” What is pressure revealing about you? If there are some cracks, Jesus knows how to fill them!