You planning ahead?
Integrity is the state of walking by the highest moral code, allowing it to affect your every action and reaction. There is a condition known as having "double standards" - the state in which the situation dictates the action or reaction. Most of us would not want to admit we live this way more than we might like - often choosing the action or reaction based on some way of feeling rather than pre-planning our response. Let me be the first to tell you - to get the right response with any consistency requires some "pre-planning" on our parts. We have to know what it is we to do, practice it until it becomes a "patterned behavior" in our lives, and then consistently apply the standard to the situation as it arises. As long as we are aimless, allowing the situation to dictate our standards, we will not have integrity - our thoughts and actions will be kind of disjointed. God's plan is for us to learn "up front" how to respond or react in t...