God's Goals For Your Roles: Devotions From Time Of Grace MinistrySample

HUSBANDS AND FATHERS: GOOD FATHERS MODEL INTEGRITY Is compartmentalizing good? It's good if it means that guys sort all their tools and sports gear and keep everything in the proper bins and drawers. It's horrible if it means that they think they live in different worlds that have nothing to do with each other. It's horrible when a Christian man's faith does not influence his business ethics. It's horrible when a man professes loyalty to his wife at home and then plays with the females in his "other worlds." The Bible calls that game "double-mindedness" and condemns it. "That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does" (James 1:7,8). The antidote to compartmentalization of the mind is godly integrity. Integrity means that a man sees his whole life as connected, that it's all one. Promises made in one world apply in the others. And you know what? This is how trust is built. Know what else? Wives really love and respond to men whom they can trust.