Thursday – Letters

Reading – 2 Corinthians 7-8

Highlight Verse:

“We are careful to be honorable before the Lord, but we also want everyone else to see that we are honorable.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭8‬:‭21‬ ‭NLT‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

The context here is the handling of donations to help the believers in Jerusalem. Paul and those with him had taken the utmost care not only to handle that money with integrity but to be transparent so all could see they were handling it with integrity.

That integrity should carry over into all aspects of life.

We live in a society that values privacy above almost everything – except maybe convenience.

I have friends who can’t believe I have smart speakers in our home. They’re concerned that they are spying on us and could target us for what we say in our home.

To that I tell them, if they’re listening in to our home, they’re gonna get terribly bored.

When you don’t have anything to hide, you don’t worry about privacy beyond practical modesty and decency.

If you want to find out if you’re living a life of integrity, simply ask yourself, “If someone was listening in on everything I say, would I be embarrassed?”

If so, it might be time to bring some of the junk out into the open so you can deal with it.

To that end, I highly recommend Celebrate Recovery to get over life’s hurts, habits, and hangups.

Are there areas in your life that need to be brought out into the open so that you can act with greater integrity in them?
Do those around you see you as a person of integrity?