You cannot really know a person, until you have been through good times and bad times with him. If the person can maintain his integrity in good times and bad, then he is truly a man of integrity. One person who was tested in wilderness and in prosperity was King David of Israel. When David was hunted by King Saul like a partridge in the mountains, he became so desperate and that he decided to take refuge with the enemy of Israel, Achish king of Gath (1 Samuel 27:1-2). When David became King of all Israel, he fell into the sin of adultery (2 Samuel 11:2-5) and murder (2 Samuel 11:15-17). So David failed both tests.
If David, the man after God's heart, the Ancestor of the Messiah can fail, we dare not trust our own integrity. It is by the grace of God that we are still preserved and we have no merit or works that we can boast of our own.
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