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  MINE INTEGRITY.
  by F.B. Meyer
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Summary: Achieving integrity requires enshrining the blessed Spirit of
God within us, who alone originates and maintains perfect love to God
and man.

Topics: "Integrity", "Wholeness in Christ"
Scripture References: Job 31:1-33

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F.B. Meyer emphasizes the concept of integrity as wholeness and
wholeheartedness, drawing from Job's reflections on purity, justice, and
compassion. He outlines Job's standards, which include purity in
actions, care for the marginalized, and a heart free from greed and
idolatry. Meyer challenges the audience to reflect on these principles
as a personal catechism, urging that true integrity is rooted in the
love of God, which can only be realized through the Holy Spirit and a
relationship with Jesus Christ. He highlights the impossibility of
achieving such integrity through human effort alone, stressing the need
for divine assistance.

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CONTENT
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Mine integrity. Job xxxi. 6.

INTEGRITY is from the Latin word integrita, wholeness. It means
whole‑heartedness. It is interesting in this chapter to see what,
in Job's estimation, it involved.

v.1. Purity in the look.

v.7. Cleanliness of the hands.

v.13. Thoughtfulness for domestic servants and underlings.

v.16. Justice to the poor and the widow.

v.17. Willingness to share morsels, and to be a father to the
fatherless.

v.19, 20. Clothing for the naked.

v.21. The refusal to depute to others help which one might render.

v.24.. The heart weaned from the love of gold.

v.26. Refusal to turn aside to idols.

v.29. Inability to rejoice at the destruction of those who had derided
and hated.

v. 33. The frank confession of wrong‑doing.

It becomes us prayerfully to go over these items, and use them as the
catechism of our soul; for if this was the standard of character for one
who lived so many centuries before the full revelation of Christ, what
should not our standard be! How impossible, however, it is to live like
this from without! We must enshrine within us the blessed Spirit of God,
who alone originates and maintains that perfect love to God and man
which compared to Job's maxims is as the heart to the body. Law is given
as the expression of God's will for the regulation of life: but it is
impossible to keep the law till we have the love; and it is impossible
to have the love until we have the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Holy
Ghost.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/fb-meyer/mine-integrity/
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