Integrity

Zach, along with all of the wildland firefighters, always carries with him the Incident Response Pocket Guide, a publication of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group.  Following the Table of Contents, three pages are dedicated not to safety or wildfires but to three topics: duty, respect, and integrity. In this day and age when it’s not politically correct to address topics like values, I was impressed that the NWCG realizes that attention to values is prerequisite to achievement, morale, teamwork--even survival.

Of all the suggestions listed under the title of Integrity, the following statement struck me as well worth repeating:

“Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong.”

Few would argue the wisdom of that! Fortunately, our Lord understands just how hard it is for us to choose right over wrong sometimes, so He’s given us some help….

“Cry for help and you'll find it's grace and more grace. The moment He hears, He'll answer….Your teacher (the Holy Spirit) will be right there…urging you on whenever you wander left or right: ‘This is the right road. Walk down this road.’”                             --ISAIAH 30:19-20