INTEGRITY:

By our guest speaker, Pastor Christian Murengera from Crosspointe Fellowship, Toronto, Canada.

Sunday 21^st July, 2013

Paul told the Corinthian church in 2 Cor 3:2-4: “You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Such confidence we have through Christ before God.”

As a Christian, you are a letter of recommendation, read by everyone. How you look and what people see preaches better than anything else. You should purpose in your heart to live a life of integrity before God, because He sees the heart and not the outside.

Remember as an ambassador of Christ, you are not called to be thermometer but a thermostat. A thermometer measures and indicates the temperature of a given place where it is placed. A thermometer also adopts the temperature of the place where it is positioned. It changes according to where you place it. But a Thermostat regulates the temperature where it is placed. It changes the temperature of the room. Hence, as a Christian you have the power to change the environment around you. Our heavenly father is disappointed when he looks down and sees a bunch of Christian-thermometers, telling him how this and that is not working. But when He sees a thermostat, it pleases Him.

In addition, we see in Mark 4:26-27 that the Word of God always accomplishes what it was sent to do. God is faithful and that’s why you need to be faithful towards him and walk in integrity before him. A man or woman of integrity is the one who can change things. Because our integrity towards God is so important, you find that the enemy also attacks us in this area by showing us that things are not working in our lives so that we remove our eyes from Jesus and look at our problems and resolve to help God, thinking that He is not able; a bad attitude.

Remember, when we talk about integrity, we also talk about boundaries. Daniel and Job although tempted, refused to sin against God. Job said “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face” (Job 13:15). This is because He understood that His integrity was the key to His Victory. Integrity is what will bring you into the promise land. If you can seek something, seek integrity.