Have
you had your Joy Juice today? Be a
person of integrity and represent Jesus with joy!
Pastor
David Jeremiah writes that “integrity is telling the truth to yourself. Honesty
is telling the truth to others.” Let
that sink in….integrity is being truthful with YOURSELF and then doing the
right thing.
In
2012, a successful business woman and investor, Amy Rees Anderson, wrote an
article for Forbes Magazine entitled “Success Will Come and Go, but Integrity
Is Forever”. She writes:
“We live in a world where integrity isn’t
talked about nearly enough. We live in a
world where ‘the end justifies the means’ has become an acceptable school of
thought for far too many. Sales people overpromise and under-deliver, all in
the name of making their quota for the month. Applicants exaggerate in job
interviews because they desperately need a job. CEOs overstate projected
earnings because they don’t want the board of directors to replace them.
Employees call in ‘sick’ because they don’t have any more paid time off when
they actually just need to get their Christmas shopping done. The list could go
on and on, and in each case the person committing the act of dishonesty tells
themselves they had a perfectly valid reason why the end result justified their
lack of integrity.”
We all can rationalize, make
excuses and even deny (David Jeremiah says), but God knows the truth and we
can’t fool him.
Tell
yourself the truth and experience the joy found in integrity.
(Much of this
information came from David Jeremiah’s book A Life Beyond Amazing)
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