Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes. His wife said to him, "Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!" Job 2:8-9

The thought occurred to me this morning: maybe he's hanging on to his integrity because it's all that he has left. Isn't that true for all of us though? We might surround ourselves with other things and even inflate our own ego with possessions, talent, and influence. If all of those things are stripped away however, there should be something that is stable and unchanging. When everything else is removed our character should still stand strong. It's in these desperate moments when we find out if our integrity has the value we think it does.
When all of our "stuff" is gone-who are we? If we can't answer that with confident authority we might need to start working on reshaping our character.
I need you to pray extra hard for a U.S. Marine who made a wrong turn and absentmindedly entered Mexico with three registered firearms. He has been in Mexican Prison for two months and I am doing what I can to get him released. Thank you for your prayers and support.
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