KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:
If commitment, responsibility, and accountability are the end goals, then INTEGRITY is the means to ensuring you get there.
Convictions (like most things in the spiritual life) are not transactional; rather, they are constitutional.
Your greatest responsibility to your family is your SPIRITUAL leadership!!!
Hiding Behind False Nobility – blog – 8/1/25
If you’re a man, God puts a premium on you taking care of your family. Your greatest example is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose main concern wasn’t physical sustenance (Luke 9:58; 12:6-7) but rather spiritual sustenance (John 4:34; 6:53-58; 1 Thessalonians 5:23). He is your prototype Husband.
Integrity has no “quit” in it; otherwise, it is no longer integrity.
Strength comes from a man’s convictions, and it manifests as integrity.
“desire” – from teshuqah – expresses an intense turning of the will toward another. It connotes ardent longing that may be either good/kind, as in marital affection, or evil, as in the predatory pull of sin. The context alone determines whether the impulse blesses or threatens.
Only sin takes issue with authority. From God’s perspective, authority and order are two sides fo the same coin. Order is divine. Disorder is evil. From this perspective, “authority” is simply a descriptor of that which keeps order (integrity underpins authority). It’s only offensive to sin; otherwise, it’s beautiful.