PRAYER: There is someone in your life that needs you to pray for them. The name that just came to your spirit-start to pray for them right now and their specific situation. If you don't know where to start, pray for their salvation, their peace, praise God that because they love Him-they are secure, pray for prosperity-spiritually, financially, pray for their health, pray for their freedom and mercy from God, pray that they repent, pray that they influence others through the Spirit of God. Pray that they wake up with a smile on their face, joy in their hearts... There you go, now take it away.
THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT:
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37 Jesus replied: " ' Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Just as people continued to test Jesus with ill intentions, till the day that you die-people will test you and your faith. Sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. Learn from Jesus' example. Don't get emotional. Use wisdom in everything you do. Everyone will not like you. You won't form bonds with everybody. But at least you can walk away from that person and/or situation knowing you dealt with them and handled it with integrity. I believe there is a lost of integrity in our society today. People do what they can, when they feel they can get away with it and make themselves feel better. When you act in integrity, you're not only thinking of yourself-you're showing you care about the other person involved.
We might think the Pharisees would have been glad to see the Sadducees silenced. The question that the Sadducees had always used to trap them was finally answered by Jesus. But the Pharisees were too proud to be impressed. Jesus' answer gave them theological victory over the Sadducees, but they were more interested in deafening Jesus than in learning the truth. Jesus always answered everyone who tested Him with integrity. He answered honestly. He made sure He was always speaking according to the Word that He not only believed in, but that He was (if you don't get this fact yet, don't worry you will when we get to the book of John), and it was the truth. How often do you act or respond with integrity in mind? How honest are you with the people in your life? Even when your patience are tried down to the last nerve-can you choose integrity over attitude. Take some time to really think about this. Let's build our character.
INTEGRITY
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