21. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me. What better practical safeguards can we require? If we do not prosper
with these as our guides, it is better for us to suffer adversity. Even the
ungodly world admits that “honesty
is the best policy.” The heir of heaven makes
assurance doubly sure, for apart from the rectitude of his public life he enlists
the guardian care of heaven in secret prayer: for I wait on thee. To
pretend to wait on God without holiness of life is religious hypocrisy, and to
trust to our own integrity without calling upon God is presumptuous atheism.
Perhaps the integrity and uprightness referred to are those righteous
attributes of God, which faith rests upon as a guarantee that the Lord will not
forfeit his word.
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