Day 24 - Say Yes to Integrity

Apologies for being away from quite some time, that time of the semester is upon me!
Todays sharing will be about Day 24 - Say Yes to Integrity

I will try to walk a blameless path, but how I need your help, especially in my own home, where i long to act as i should.

Help me to refuse the low and vulgar things; help me to abhor crooked deals of every kind, to have no part in them.
Psalms 101:2-3LB

Say Yes to Integrity

Going through renunciation and baptism, i feel that much closer to God and that much farther from sin already. Praise the Lord for He has taken away my sins and given me a new slate. Hard it is for me to say this but how long will it take for me to sin again? Logically speaking it wont take too long before its gonna start happening again. Sins as you know are easy things to commit, for “Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few will find it.”(Matthew 7:13-14). Waking up this morning, it did worry me a bit if this would be the day that i would sin in the Lord's eyes, just two days fresh out of baptism.

And i find that in Day 24 - Say Yes to Integrity, even the Great King David was susceptible to sin. The difference was that he readily admitted his weaknesses to the Lord, and prayed to the Lord for strength.

Tom Holladays' 3 step guide to Integrity

Choose to speak the truth

How many times do you feel that it's just easier to lie rather then just speak the truth. Some days i find myself shocked at how lies just roll off the tongue so easily. And in some cases we have people working overtime to keep things covered. "The truth will set you free" John 8:32. Come clean with the Lord at least. And we find that He accepts us for who we are. And then maybe start opening up to the people around us that we have been living a lie. This could well be the hardest part to do so we should ask God for the strength to do so. And this is hard, for some will stop short and think why should i tell the truth when lying is so much easier? Sweeping lies under the rug everyday and one day the rug is just going to explode in your face.

Choose to Be Honest about Faults

Second part to coming clean. We are human and we do fault. The difficulty is to admit them. And some are faults so huge but we refuse to admit them. Facing the ugly truth isn't what i want to do today, and over a long period of time pushing the truth aside we find ourselves oblivious to them. Isn't it easier to uproot our faults whilst its a shrub then wait till it becomes a tree? Not to say that trees are impossible to uproot for with Gods help nothing is impossible, just takes more effort. And we find that uprooting a tree is going to cause more damage to the surroundings then a little shrub did. Find your someone that you can admit your faults, fears and failures. and Pray with them.


Choose to Ask for God's Help

"The LORD on high is mighty"
Psalms 93:4

Walking this earth without help i should say is close to impossible. Walking this earth in God's way, i should think is impossible. For we are tempted and taunted by sin on a daily basis. Any time can be a time to fall and disappoint for sin is that powerful. But our Lord is that much more powerful, and with His divine help sin can be avoided, evaded and even crushed. Recognising our weaknesses in the first place as stated above, and then asking God's help to conquer them. And we say no to the low, the vulgar and the sinful. With His power we have a new power to say yes to high and mighty things.


Glory to God






The same power that conquered the grave
Lives in me, Lives in me
Your love that rescued the earth
Lives in me, lives in me