Life can be full of regrets, but integrity and high moral character will never leave one feeling remorseful.  This blog is not for those who walk in disappointment, but rather those who are doing their best to avoid moral failure and the loss of integrity.

Job’s wife once said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!”  But the Bible says that even after all of Job’s loss he did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.  What amazing character this man walked in.  If you’re like me, you are tempted but if you long to be more like Jesus, you realize perfection will never be reached.  However, lifelong integrity can be your testimony and that testimony begins today.

If you walk in integrity and avoid moral failure you will be:

• Maintaining a personal testimony and walk before God
• Maintaining an uninhibited marriage of oneness (spiritually, sexually, emotionally)
• Not having to work at winning a spouses trust back
• Maintaining family by not embarrassing them and not losing their respect and trust
• Not having to walk away from a job or ministry position
• Not having to relocate
• Not having to face newspaper articles, publicly printed communication and social media about personal failure
• Not having to face rumors, gossip and lies
• Not having to face untold and far-reaching negative consequences either based on truth and fact or hearsay and lies
• Not having to face the law or possible law suits
• Not losing or forfeiting many friendships and local church relationships
• Living without wounds and scars
• Not feeling as though everyone is watching
• Not suffering from overwhelming thoughts of failure
• Not continually reliving the past and coming up with regret and loss
• Living without continual condemnation and guilt or false guilt
• Able to sleep at night
• Waking up in the morning and looking forward to a new day
• Not having to be concerned about who one may face in the day
• Not suffering the loss of vision
• Not having to go through biblical discipline and a restoration process
• Able to look at one’s family and all others in the eye
• Able to look at oneself in the mirror without feeling like a failure
• Having a clear conscience; walking through life without a cloud over oneself
• Not losing one’s peace and joy
• Not suffering the loss and grief of broken relationship with God

“The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.”  (Proverbs 10:9)