INTEGRITY. I was reading about it everywhere, hearing about it on the news and in discussions of ethics and politics. I joined the dialogue at times and used the word myself. But I had to ask myself, "Do I really know what integrity means?" Since I couldn't readily answer "yes," I decided to do some research. What I discovered was much more than the meaning of a word! I found a wonderfully full description of my real self—one that brought inspiration as well as physical healing.
Until I began my special study of integrity, my understanding of this quality—a quality I believed I expressed fairly well—was that it included decency, honesty, trustworthiness, and sound ethics. But I soon discovered that there are other ways in which we can express integrity. While that word may describe moral soundness, it can also refer to an unimpaired condition, a state of wholeness and completeness, which would include health. And what I found particularly reassuring is that this multifaceted attribute of integrity is not just something we can aspire to. It's a quality of God that we already express as His reflection. Right now we can claim and embody this inheritance from God by identifying ourselves and others as His heirs, reflecting the fullness of the divine nature.
Since God is All, whole and undivided, He is the source of integrity. We express that integrity. We're inseparable from it. A building has integrity if it is firmly grounded, if its entire structure is secure. In the same way, the integrity of God and His image is sure, indestructible.
