“We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.”  ~ Chuck Colson 

I am not one who likes to ‘cut and paste’ articles and post it in my blog but I am making an exception on this one. During my Bible reading time courtesy of the Bible app Youversion, I encountered something that I felt I must share.

In our quest to make a living, earn a profit and achieve a comfortable life for our loved ones, are we tempted to sacrifice our integrity? 

Here’s a very good insight from Youversion:

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Making money is a fine thing. Taking money is not. It is amazing how fertile the human brain can be in devising schemes to separate other people from their money. Have you gotten e-mails from Africa claiming that you are a trustee of a fortune? Or gotten e-mails from a “bank” that just needs your own checking account’s routing numbers to fix something?

Some people define morality as whatever they can get away with. If there is no one in the forest to hear the tree fall, did it really make a noise? If I never get caught, is it really wrong?

P. T. Barnum remarked famously that a sucker was born every minute. Do you share Barnum’s sharp eye for taking advantage of people?

Remember that Someone is watching how you acquire your money. Satan owns the short term, but only the Lord can give lasting satisfaction.

“Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with a mouth full of gravel” (Proverbs 20:17).