The story is
told of a fellow who worked for the shoddy Construction Company.
One day,
while building stairs, his boss put hay bales inside the wood forms.
They poured
concrete over the hay.
The owners
were away and never knew.
Five years
later, the hay had rotted, the stairs were hollow, the concrete cracked, and
then collapsed, but the contractor had vanished.
The owners
got stuck with having to pay for a new set of stairs. The dishonest company got
away with it that day.
Eventually,
however, their poor reputation drove them out of business.
On the other
hand, a newspaper described a Florida man who found $1700 in a purse.
He gave it
to the police and refused the reward.
He could
have pocketed the cash, and nobody would have known.
Turned out,
half the money belonged to a single mom who had saved money for a year to take
her son to Disney World.
No money
meant no trip.
The other
half belonged to the boy’s grandfather, who had pinched dollars from his
disability checks to pay off his mechanic so they all could have a car.
The Florida
man might have pocketed the cash; instead he said, “It wasn’t mine.”
Integrity is
how we act when nobody is watching.
Nothing we
do is hidden from God, even when nobody’s watching how we act, God sees and
remembers.
Integrity
doesn’t cut corners.
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