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"Don't get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil." – Proverbs 4:27 (NLT)
Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important to your future than personal integrity. Webster defines it in one word - honesty! And you can only hide your lack of it for so long. Eventually like a faulty foundation in a storm, the cracks widen, the roof caves in, and everything you've worked for is gone.
"Getting away with it" can actually be worse than getting caught because it encourages you to believe that you can continue operating in two different worlds: reality & fantasy. Listen to the words of the prophet Jeremiah: "Like a bird that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. Sooner or later they will lose their riches and, at the end of their lives, will become poor old fools." (Jeremiah 17:11).
Please don't be misled into thinking that you can do whatever you want in small things and be okay as long as you have no major lapses. It's your first lie that makes you a liar. And whether you steal one dollar or one million dollars, you're still a thief. Phillips Brooks says, "Character is made in the small moments of our lives." Integrity always puts character over personal gain, people over things, service over power, principle over convenience, and the long view over the immediate.
Every time you break a moral principle, it becomes more difficult to act with integrity. Everything you've done in the past, including the things you've neglected to do, comes to a head when you're under pressure. That's why developing and maintaining integrity requires constant vigilance and discipline. John Weston says, "Live by the following rule; don't do anything you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in tomorrow's newspaper."
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