Keep Your Integrity! - HOW WE CAN KEEP OUR INTEGRITY AT THIS TIME

 Satan has intensified his attacks on thse troubled "last days." (2 Timothy 3:1) In such dark times, how can we strengthen ourselves to  maintain our integrity?  Again, we can learn a lot from Job.  Long before his tests arose, Job had already built up a record of integrity.  Consider three lessons we can learn from him about stregthening ourselves to keep our integrity.

Job strenghtened his love for Jehovah God by developing awe for  Jehovah.  Job spent time contemplating the marvels of Jehovah's creation. (Read Job 26:7, 8, 14)  He was awestruck when thought abot the earth,the sky, the clouds, and the thunder, yet  he rcognized that he knew very little about the vastness of creation.  He also felt awe for Jehovah's expressions.  "I have treasured up his saying," Job said of God's Words.  (Job 23:12) Job's awe and respect for Jehovah moved him. He loved his Father and wanted to please him.  Job's determination to keep his integrity thus grew stronger. We need to do as Job did. We know far more about the marvels of creation than did people of Job's time. ASnd we have the entire inspired Bible to help us to know  Jehovah as he really is.  All that we learn can help to fill our heart with awe.  Our awe and respect for Jehovah will, in turn move us to love and obey him ad to built  up our deep desire to keep our integrity. - JOB 28:28.

Job strengthened himself to keep his integrity through acts of obedience.  Job knew that integrity calls for obedience.  In fact, each act of obedience strengthens our determination to keep our integrity. Job worked hard to obey God in his daily life. For example, he was careful about his  behavior wiht those of the opposite sex.  (Read Job 31:1) As a married man,  he knew that it was improper to opay romantic attention to any woman other than his wife.  Today, we live in a world that bombards us with sexual temptation.  Like Job, we will refuse to pay improper attention to anyone to whom we are not married?  Will we also refuse to look at lewed or pornographic images in any form?  (Matthew 5:28) If we exert such self-control daily, we will strengthen ourselves to keep our integrity.

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