Credibility | Keeping Your Word

Below is a link to a blog from Insight for Living Ministries about credibility.  Here is a quote from the article:

“Jurors often have reason to doubt the testimony of a witness on the stand. Parents, likewise, have reason at times to doubt their children’s word (and vice versa). Citizens frequently doubt the promises of politicians, and the credibility of an employee’s word is questioned by the employer. Creditors can no longer believe a debtor’s verbal promise to pay, and many a mate has ample reason to doubt the word of his or her partner. This is a terrible dilemma! Precious few do what they say they will do without a reminder, a warning, or a threat. Unfortunately, this is true even among Christians.”

I remember when I was a young Christian and I came to understand the bible verse Psalm 15:4 “The righteous man swears to his own hurt, and does not change.”

This is MOST DEFINITELY a response that does not come naturally to children or adults and yet when you see this put into action it is a very powerful witness for the Lord.  Let us not neglect this most fundamental character development.

https://www.insight.org/resources/daily-devotional/individual/a-bridge-called-credibility-part-one

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