Everybody Does It
Theme for this Week: Shun Those Shortcuts
Patrick Morley
Sunday, May 19, 2002
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"Everybody Does It"
Theme for this Week: Shun Those Shortcuts
Sunday, May 19
Key Bible Verses: I am determined not to sin in what I say . …I have not wavered from following you (Psalm 17:3, 5). Bonus Reading:Jeremiah 9:3–9
Steve and his wife sold their businesses, he enrolled in graduate school out of state, and they purchased a home near the university. When they went to close the mortgage on the new house, the mortgage company wanted him to falsify some financial information.
"I can't do that," he told them.
"It's no big deal. Everybody does it," was the reply.
"I don't think you understand; I can't do that."
"It just goes in the file; nobody will ever even look at it. Besides, if you don't, then we can't give you the loan."
Steve believed God had led them to return to school. To complete the move he'd have to compromise his integrity. The decision was straighforward: "Who do I put first in this decision—my own desires or Christ?"
To put himself first would have been easy. Who'd know, who'd even care? Steve decided to put Jesus first, before "personal peace" and affluence. He returned to school locally instead of moving out of state on a lie. And he couldn't be more at peace.
—Patrick Morley in The Man in the Mirror
Adapted from: The Man in the Mirror (Zondervan, 1989).
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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May/June 2002,Vol. 5,No. 3
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