October 16
The integrity in which our Heavenly Father desires us to walk is extolled in both the Old and New Testaments. It is not like the dietary law and the laws requiring observance of feasts and events; rather, it is an on-going, eternal veracity in which He expects us to conduct the entirety of our lives.
In Psalm 34:12, 13 we are told, “Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.” The quality of our lives is impacted by the words we speak and the truthfulness in which we speak them.
In his letter to the Ephesians, Chapter 6, verse 14, Paul says, “Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place. This is an essential part of the “whole armor of God” (Ephesians 6: 13-20) that we must wear if we are to successfully combat the enemy of our souls.
When we awaken to the reality that the evil one has set about to destroy us, we will do what is needful to defeat him. Because deception has been part of his strategy from the beginning (in Genesis 3:1-7 he planted the suggestion that God’s word was not reliable), our best way to combat him is by holding firmly to TRUTH!
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