I overheard a report being given on the radio concerning honesty. A Business School professor in Dayton had interviewed 3,000 Business School graduates from across America: 90% admitted cheating in college and 95% admitted to lying regularly. If this is the future leadership of America, watch out. Savings and Loan fraud and insider trading schemes will be multiplying.
This survey says there is a bigger moral sickness in America that pre-marital sex and illegal drug use. The latter two affects a much smaller percentage of the college graduate world. Of course, dishonesty and lying are roots of marriage infidelity that bears fruit in divorce and a whole generation of children of divorce that seek solace in illicit sex and drugs.
This problem of dishonesty has ugly tentacles that stretch out in all directions. Wake up, parents and grandparents, what have you been teaching the children about honesty? Are you saying one thing but doing something else? (We are in the tax season!)
The Bible teaches honesty as the natural way of the Christian with no mixture of half-truth. Romans 13:13 (NIV) “Let us walk honestly as in the day” implies that Christians have nothing to hide. Our lives should be open books all the time. Christians pray for one another so that in all things they may “walk honestly” (Hebrews 13:18) Philippians 4:8 challenges us to think about “whatsoever things are honest”.
A whole society crumbles when honesty is dying. The Honor Code at the military academies and medical schools and certain universities says to society that the product of these schools is trustworthy. In Acts 6:3 and other places, we see that honesty was a requirement for leadership in the Church. Today, several churches are in trouble because of dishonest leadership.
Will you make a promise to God today to be totally truthful and honest in all thing? You know,”the truth and nothing but the truth”? If so, seal it with a prayer.
“God of all Truth, set a guard at my lips so nothing dishonest can
escape. Help us to always be walking in the truth with no lies. Amen”
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