For the Love of Us All

WITNESS

4-19-13

CHARACTER-INTEGRITY-OUR GOOD NAME

One of the most important things

We were born with

Is our CHARACTER

Our INTEGRITY

In choosing right and wrong

And OUR GOOD NAME

We can ruin our lives

By being dishonest

By making wrong choices

And by

NOT respecting others

And OUR GOD

DOES AGREE

“The man of integrity

Walks securely

But he who takes crooked paths

Will be found out”                                                            Proverbs 10:9

“The INTEGRITY of the upright

Guides them

But the unfaithful are destroyed

By their duplicity”                                                             Proverbs 11:3

Our CHARACTER is what guides us

What guides our decisions

What LEADS us to God

And what produces HOPE in us

And for us

“And we rejoice

In the HOPE of the Glory of God

Not only so

But we rejoice in our suffering

Because we know

That suffering produces perseverance

Perseverance-CHARACTER

And CHARACTER-HOPE

And hope does not disappoint us

Because our God has poured out

His love into our hearts

By the Holy Spirit

Whom he has given us”                                                          Romans 5:4-5

And so

When we have been stripped

Of everything

But our character and our integrity

We should still 

Have our FAITH-HOPE-and LOVE

And our character and integrity

And our reputation-OUR GOOD NAME

Is influenced

By who

We surround ourselves with

“Do not be misled

Bad company corrupts our good character”                                    Romans 15:33

And the LOVE of a good woman

Or a good man is important

“A wife of noble character 

Who can find

She is worth

Far more than rubles”                                                                 Proverbs 31:10

Finally-if it is true

We are the SUM

Of all the choices that we make

EACH CHOICE

Should be bringing us closer

To God and Christ

And in the end

That is who we are

THE SUM of ALL our choices

Which is our reputation

“He must

Also have a good reputation

With outsiders

So that he will not fall

Into disgrace

And into the devil’s trap”                                                           1 Timothy 3:7

But even

If we have made some mistakes    

Along the way

And ALL of us have

OUR GOD is THE GOD

Of infinite chances

And tomorrow is another day

TO BEGIN building character             

To begin building HOPE

And to begin

BUILDING A NEW REPUTATION

Robert P. Wallman

3-26-13  

Ps        WITNESS        4-19-13