- Just because I am suffering doesn't mean it's because I sinned.
- Although it seems God's promises to me have failed, they won't in time. If it seems that God has abandoned me, it doesn't mean I should abandon Him. I will hold to my integrity.
- Being accused of doing evil or wrong, or if someone just feels I am wrong, doesn't mean I have to agree in order to keep the peace-- especially when I honestly believe I haven't done wrong. I will hold to my integrity.
- If my conscience is clear, it doesn't make me innocent. If it is defiled, it doesn't make me guilty either. God is the one who justifies.
- God doesn't always give men what they deserve, because His purposes are beyond our tracing out.
These are the situations where I know my integrity can be tested:
- I lose a promotion, respect, or friendship because I refuse to participate in wickedness.
- I am afraid to be honest about what I believe, because I may risk being abandoned.
- I maintain my innocence even when every one around me confesses to a particular sin.
- I maintain my guilt, when every one around me believes what I've done is okay.
- I wait on God even when people, Satan, or bad thinking patterns try to convince me to feel shame when I go through suffering.
- I try to trust that God loves me when I suffer or feel abandoned, and I can not perceive God's presence.
- I chose the hard path even when I have the opportunity to use wicked means to achieve my ends; and while integrity, honesty and trust in God seems like it's not working or that it gets in the way.
