INTEGRITY CRISIS!!

"The integrity of the upright will guide them" Proverbs 11:3. MY FRIEND "INTEGRITY" IS ALMOST VANISHING FROM OUR SOCIETY, AND YES EVEN FROM LARGE NUMBER OF CHRISTIANS. You can call it as "the self serving bias or fundamental attribution error", right? While I was in another country I read in a news paper an example of this. More than hundred thousand high school students were asked whether they were above or below average students. Well, guess what Zero percentage said they are below average and 20% said they are top 1%. If something good happens in our lives we tend to explain it by taking credit for it, But If we fail, we explain it by blaming the circumstances. If I do well in a test, I am smart. If I do poorly because I was distracted. If people like my sermon I am a good preacher, if they don't they are too shallow. If I get a speeding ticket, it's because police needed to fill their quota and they set up a trap instead of catching criminals. How about you are breaking the law? OUCH! What is the solution for our integrity problem? It's the way of repentance and grace. We need God's help to see the truth about ourselves. This can be done in three ways. 1) Through prayer. 2) Through reading and applying God's word. 3) Through people who loves us and knows us well; who don't tell us what we want to hear but what we need to hear. Aligning our life to God's will result in spiritual growth, more meaningful relationships and fewer long term problem. It is how we develop integrity or become blameless before God. Is it OK to post the truth? Yeah yeah?