"Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice." - Proverbs 16:8
It's Monday. Back to the salt mine, and nose to the grindstone. Work to be done. What will we do to get it done? What will we do to get ahead?
I know people in our church and community who have waited patiently for God to come through, and he did! I talked to a guy yesterday for whom God came through miraculously in the blink of an eye. The common denominator to both patient waiting and also seeing mind-boggling miracles is faith -- faith that lives today's verse, "Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice." - Proverbs 16:8
How about I toss the ball to y'all today? You all tell the stories.
Here's the topic from today's verse: "Integrity at any price."
Maybe you've got a negative story like a number of you who've shared with me how you cheated on a test by looking at a classmate's paper, and you both got it wrong. So you decided that you could just as well get it wrong by yourself without the guilty conscience, at least, and maybe the principal's office on top of it.
Integrity at any price.
Maybe you've got a positive story like one of you told me when you were at the bank to withdraw a few hundred cash for a vacation. The teller counted out the money. Their counting was right, but their matching was wrong as they gave you a hundred too much. Then you stood there looking back and forth at the money and the teller, not wanting to say anything, because their supervisor was also standing there and you didn't want them to get in trouble. The teller still didn't get it, so you had to speak. They were so impressed with your integrity that they wound up coming to your church.
Integrity at any price.
What's your story?
Let's hear it.
"Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice." - Proverbs 16:8
Praise God!
Here's the topic from today's verse: "Integrity at any price."
Maybe you've got a negative story like a number of you who've shared with me how you cheated on a test by looking at a classmate's paper, and you both got it wrong. So you decided that you could just as well get it wrong by yourself without the guilty conscience, at least, and maybe the principal's office on top of it.
Integrity at any price.
Maybe you've got a positive story like one of you told me when you were at the bank to withdraw a few hundred cash for a vacation. The teller counted out the money. Their counting was right, but their matching was wrong as they gave you a hundred too much. Then you stood there looking back and forth at the money and the teller, not wanting to say anything, because their supervisor was also standing there and you didn't want them to get in trouble. The teller still didn't get it, so you had to speak. They were so impressed with your integrity that they wound up coming to your church.
Integrity at any price.
What's your story?
Let's hear it.
"Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice." - Proverbs 16:8
Praise God!
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