We live in such a selfish, immoral and cowardly society that the very concept of integrity is offensive to some. An honest person who holds a firm adherence to moral and ethical principles has now become a target and a laughingstock in many places. As a result, principled people are being pressured to compromise or, at the very least, to be quiet.
It would do us well to remember how God revered two of His faithful servants, David and Job. “…Walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness…” (1 Kgs. 9:4). “Have you considered My servant Job…still he holds fast to his integrity” (Job 2:3).
Could God make the same evaluation of you? Are you a Christian of strong, enduring integrity? “The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them…The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him…Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one perverse in his ways” (Prov. 11:3; 20:7; 28:6).