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Integrity - What do you do when you are under pressure?

Written by Nana Kwame Owusu-Afriyie.

"If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small" (NLT) Proverbs 24:10

Consider this scenario: You are the line manager of the marketing department of your company. Your sales team is seriously trailing the monthly sales targets. You have been issued a strongly worded letter to inspire your team to buck up or you risk losing your lucrative job and enviable position. In addition to all this drama in your life, you are in graduate school and the deadline for submitting your research proposal and assignments is closing in on you. As if that is not enough, you always go home to a nagging spouse and your kids who are at risk of repeating their class again in school.

You may dismiss this scenario as hypothetical but in real life, a single person can be the sole bearer of such an avalanche of troubles. Fact is, it can even be worse than this. When troubles come, they come in battalions and the pressure it exacts on us can be unbearable. In times like that, some choose the fatalistic path and commit suicide. Some may even contemplate abandoning the ways of God. If our faith in God is shaken to the core, the tendency is to leave Him, but in Heaven's name to what?

When Job's wife could not bear the pressure anymore she suggested to her husband to curse God and die. Job proved beyond every possible doubt that indeed he was a man of complete integrity. Just look at what he said and did:

"But Job replied, 'You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong." (NLT) Job 2:10

Beloved, the troubles, the disappointments, the heart breaks, the bad breaks, and the inconveniences that we encounter every day pales in comparison to that of Job. Pressures of life are some of the ways of Lord to build our character (Read 1 Peter 1:7). We should never wish them away or pray them away. It will come when it comes. What we should pray for is the strength to keep on keeping on without a dent to our integrity. What do you do when you are under intense pressure? Like a cream, you should always rise to the top.

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