Integrity

"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8)

Integrity will implore us to experience the discomfort of doing the right thing now so that we don't have to experience the pain, that results from deceit later. 
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When our words and actions consistently align with truth and facts we can consider ourselves to have integrity. The individual whose words and actions morph according to their own reality risks being a liar and deceitful.  

Integrity deals with reality while pervertedness deals with falsehoods. Our alignment with one or the other will show up consistently in our lives. The source of integrity is a strong value system and principles. For the believer it is established in our relationship with the Almighty God and our adherence to His Word. A person without integrity stands for nothing and lives by their own rules or reality. 

“The Lord always deals with things as they are. Man invents fictions, but God creates facts. We conceive of things as they appear, but God sees them as they exist. ‘Man looketh at the outward appearance, but God looketh at the heart.’The Lord never misrepresents, nor has fellowship with misrepresentation. We are forever hurrying about with our paint and varnish and tinsel, laboring to make the meaner thing appear equal to the more precious, and spending our skill in making the sham seem as brilliant as the reality, but all this is contrary to the way of the Lord. Everything is true in God, and everything is seen in its reality by his all-discerning eye. Because he is light, he deals with things in the light, treating them as they are. If God is to deal graciously with us, we must each one stand in the light, and present ourselves before him as we are.” (Charles Spurgeon)
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Dear Lord, strengthen our walk with you so that truth will always be our compass, securing our integrity. 

GiGi❤️