Pursue integrity, fidelity, bravery
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Editor,
The most important book in my library is the Bible. I have a number of copies, most of them I have read from cover to cover, some several times. I’m always amazed that even though the Bible is a Holy Book, it doesn’t hide or omit the darker side of the lives of the people presented on its pages.
Think of Adam and Eve sewing fig leaves to cover their nakedness and then thinking they could hide in the garden so that God couldn’t find them (deceit). Ridiculous. Or that Israel’s King David could steal another man’s wife (lust), then have the man murdered in battle, believing that no one would ever discover the King’s sin. Crazy. “Be sure your sins will be discovered” (Numbers 32:23).
A story of deception is presented in 2nd Kings 5, where Elisha’s slinking servant Gehazi thinks he can pick up a couple of bags of silver and two royal robes (greed) and secretly hide them in his home and no one will ever know. Dumb. Moments later his Master, knowing the cover-up, says, “where have you been, Gehazi?” Or think of this, a guy named Nicodemus, (John chapter 3) under the cover of the darkness of night slips in to speak with Jesus (fear?), not knowing that within a hundred years his name and story will be written and later read by millions of people all over the world.
Can we learn anything from history? I’m sure we can if we also give attention to God’s Book, the Bible, which teaches us that we should never be ashamed to pursue the practice of integrity, fidelity, generosity, bravery and so much more.
I continue to evaluate the candidates in light of what I’ve just written. I especially appreciate Trump’s choice of Governor Mike Pence. The Governor will provide additional virtue to the ticket; maybe someday he will be our president?
Harvey A. Town
Polson
