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Devotional for Nov. 18
***********6:15pm new starting time for Thursdays small group Bible Study**************
Honesty: Character and Truth
read pages 91-98 Character Matters by Mark Rutland
Discuss the story of General Billy Mitchell from WWI who was court martialed for telling the truth about air power. He died before being given an apology and receiving the congressional Medal of Honor.
Honesty is the virtue of wealth and words. Honesty in communication is telling the truth. "Thou shalt not bear false witness." (Bible) Honesty in possessions is right action with regard to things. "Thou shalt not steal." (Bible)
Honesty and possessions:
The teenaager who shoplifts, the thrill theft, the unpaid debt--these are the everyday thefts of America.
Do you think?: An individual who unneccessarily and deliberately files bankruptcy for the express purpose of avoiding the payment of debt is a thief? or......a person who noticing in her shopping bag that an article is there that she did not pay for, and does not return to pay for it is a thief?
Is it acceptable to defraud an insurance company because we might think insurance is a racket itself?
Rutland says: "Faceless theft starts with the wrong question. The question is not who or what owns a thing. The greater issue is who DOES NOT. The fact that something is not mine is the bottom line for me."
I may not know whose it is, but I certainly know whose it is not. Knowing it is not mine is the true ground of honesty.
Honest Gain:
The selling of worthy goods or services for a fair price is pleasing in God's sight. Willfully hiding pertinent information from another in order to get the better of him in a business deal is not shrewd business; it is theivery.
(read story pages 96-97) What do you think?
Honest Gain Honestly Gotten:
There is a line between shrewd business and dishonesty.
What do you think?: Is it better to miss out on a great deal than to make it by the slightest deception?
Interesting thoughts on Gambling:
Rutland says: " There is no specific Bible verse that says, 'Thou shalt not gamble.' However, the counsel of God taken as a whole clearly teaches that I have no right to another's goods without offering something of value in return. Gambling not only endangers the resources of God entrusted into my hands, but also I exploit the passion and lust for chance in the life of another in order to take his goods with nothing in return. When a state or a nation begins to operate gambling games, it breeds characterlessness and immorality into the lives of its citizenry." What do you think?
THE END NEVER JUSTIFIES THE MEANS.
How about exaggerated advertisements, padded expense accounts, deliberately shaved tax forms, arriving late and leaving early from a job, etc......? Food for thought!
See you all this Friday,
Becky
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