Integrity...A price to pay...

27 April 2025

There is a price to pay to keep your Integrity. But first, how do you define Integrity? For me, your Integrity must be holding on to a set of beliefs or a value system. Your beliefs must be true and noble and your value system true; to yourself. Only you know your mind. Only you know your value system. This does not mean..I will have and keep my Integrity to a group of people who kill or steal. Wrong value system. You can be committed to them, but you are all messed up in your commitment. The value system must be real. True. And invariably is geared towards others. A person. Or people. But it is not geared to oneself. The person who strikes me most, in this topic is Job. After Job is Jacob. Both had Integrity to their conscience. One expressed it by way of God, his faith. The other expressed it by human desire, a woman. Job 27:5-6 until I die I will not denounce my Integrity. Until I die he said. I can't deny my conscience. Job 2:9 others could see his Integrity. Job just could not deny what to him was right. On the other hand we have Jacob Gen 29:20ff. This is but pure love shown by deep commitment. Jacob could not deny his commitment to Rachel. Job could not deny his commitment to helping others and his faith in God. Now, to keep your commitment it will cost you a lot. A lot. It will cost you family. Friends. It will leave you all alone. But you have your integrity. You are honest to yourself. Others, have no Integrity. They deny their feelings. You see it by their actions. They have a goal. To use you for their own personal gain. Having obtained this they throw you away like a menstrual cloth. They spit you out. They deny the facts. They call the facts...lies. These people cause more hurt to Job than all his physical pain. They denied the facts. But Job kept his Integrity. What about you? How far will you go to keep your Integrity? Or how quickly will you exchange the truth for a lie?