Bobby Jones was an early golfer in the United States.
At the U.S. Open in Massachusetts in 1925, he went
to
officialsand told them he had accidently moved his ball
slightly, violating Rule 18. They didn’t agree. It was on
the
eleventh hole, and they told him to keep playing.
Jones refused, saying he really had moved the ball a
bit. As a result of his honesty, he
lost the game by one
stroke. Later he told sportswriters who praised him for
his honesty, “You might as well praise me for not
robbing banks.”
God desires us to live faithfully before Him at all
times,
not just when others are looking. He's always watching,
and He is glorified by our reflection of His faithfulness
and
integrity.
This was on Paul’s mind when he wrote the book of
Colossians. He called them “faithful brethren in Christ”
(1:2), and wrote about faithful Epaphras (1:7), faithful
Tychichus (4:7), and faithful Onesimus (4:9).
Let’s be part of that
group!
"The Holy
Spirit takes the joy and
peace of Christ and reproduces
them in and through our lives.
He
takes the love of Christ and
manifests it through us."
Robert McQuilkin