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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Leave a Legacy of JOY



            Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  Be a person of integrity and share the joy of the Lord everywhere you go!

            Thank you for allowing me to reminisce this week about some of the lessons my dad taught me. We’ve talked about faith, gratitude and perseverance.  Something else that easily comes to mind when I think of Daddy and other Godly fathers is the word INTEGRITY!

            According to one dictionary---integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, principles and expectations. In Christian ethics, integrity is regarded as the quality of having an intuitive sense of honesty and truthfulness..  Integrity can be regarded as the opposite of hypocrisy.  Simply put---in the words of my daddy, “Be as good as your word.”

            As a young gal, I can remember my dad making business deals on “his word and a handshake!”  That was as good a contract.  Isn’t it sad that things have changed so much!  Why can’t we still do business this way?  Because of the lack of integrity we find in our society today.

Proverbs 11:3 wisely informs us: “The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.”
           
            May we follow the examples of Godly men who are men of integrity. They demonstrate how to leave a legacy of JOY!

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