Honesty is the Best Policy

DAY 17- Proverbs 19

Every day we are inundated with messages that condition us to believe we need to be successful - to be rich. We dream of making lots of money and the things we can buy. to some degree we all strive for success. Proverbs 19:22 says, "It's only human to want to make a buck, but it's better to be poor than a liar." (The Message)

I think that as we struggle for prosperity we might begin to compromise our integrity - or at least be tempted to do so. But verse 1 caution, "Better a poor man whose walk is blameless, than a fool whose lips are perverse." I would love to be rich, but if I had to choose, I'd rather be poor, yet honest. I think it's so easy to find the gray area between truth and lies, or to be tempted to 'bend the truth' slightly.

The Holy Spirit can help convict us of our sins. It is my prayer that I would recognize lies, or even 'slight variations of the truth', before they come out of my mouth.