Church of God in Christ, Mennonite

Sometimes cares and the busyness of life tend to overtake and dull our Christian lives. Then God needs to reach down to help us get the right perspective again. Such seemed to have been the case for me—there was so much I needed to get done, and so much I wanted to get done every day that it was difficult to even take time for my devotions. Then one night I had a dream.

Referring to Jesus, Peter told the early believers, “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory” (1 Pet. 1:8). A little later in the same book, he wrote, “Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on...

“Integrity” occurs sixteen times in the King James Version of the Bible, and all of them are in the Old Testament. It is used to describe an adherence to moral and ethical principles and embodies the concept of being whole or complete. It is not exclusively for the wise and noble; the writer of the Proverbs refers to even the poor walking in it. Job’s wife, under the test of ...