Firm Footing

“People with integrity have a firm footing, but those who follow crooked paths will slip and fall.”  Pr. 10:9

The first thing you do in dealing with the stress of compromise is, Do the right thing. Doing the easy thing may seem simpler in the short run but on the long run doing the right thing is less stressful. People with integrity have a firm footing, but those who follow crooked paths will slip and fall” [emphasis added]. You have to choose between a firm footing or slipping and falling, what will it be?

This is something you need to wrestle with and settle in your heart. Why? It is because the stress of being found out is enormous in itself. Have you noticed that when you want to do something bad, the enemy would say, nobody will find out after all there is no one else here but you. And have you noticed that as soon as you do it, that same voice changes to, everybody will find out. We will see how you are going to cover this up. Are you not ashamed of yourself? Pastor Ghandi, while ministering in God’s Favourite House said, “How come everybody claims they can hear the devil but these same people cannot hear God?” God does not condemn us. He convicts us. Huge difference!

The pain and the pressure of compromise is enormous and it brings stress. Have you noticed that you are not under pressure to remember what you said when you tell the truth? But if you lie, the pressure to remember “what you said to who” is enormous. Such people consistently delay their answers because they are trying to remember what version of the story they told you. Integrity is the only way to stay on track [firm footing]. The by-product of integrity is confidence and it is evident in the lives of people with integrity. They are not afraid of anyone because they did not steal from anyone. They are not afraid to answer questions or repeat something they said earlier because they did not lie in the first place.

When I resigned from the church I used to pastor before God led us to start God’s Favourite House, they sent people to audit the church but I was out of the country at the time. And the elderly pastor that audited the church was shocked. He said, he had never seen a pastor that would allow his church to be audited when he is not standing over the shoulders of the auditors. The only reason I was able to do that is because I had nothing to hide.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to be a person of integrity, in Jesus Name.