Integrity

Job 2:9-10 (Amplified Bible) Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast your blameless uprightness? Renounce God and die! But he said to her, You speak as one of the impious and foolish women would speak. What? Shall we accept [only] good at the hand of God and shall we not accept [also] misfortune and what is of a bad nature? In [spite of] all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Job's wife had an opinion about integrity at the beginning of his suffering. But Job could not curse God. If Job cursed God it would go against everything he believed about God and himself. Sometimes life can feel like we are in the middle of a contest between God and Satan.
We wonder how much more we can take.We wonder where we will find the strength.We wonder where God is and why He is allowing such pain. Integrity does not mean accepting life's difficulties with a rosy outlook or a Pollyanna attitude. It allows for the depression and the questioning and the anger which sometimes go hand in hand with suffering. But it also allows for holding on to God.

Prayer: Lord in the very midst of our struggles we cling to you, and in doing so we cling to our integrity -- that wholeness which is so often threatened by the pressures of life. Thank you for your Spirit who gives us the strength to hold on.

Have A Blessed day