The Proverbs are full of words of wisdom. Everything in it is wise words to live by. We must be careful, though, not to just be readers of the word, but to be doers of the word. Proverbs won't help us if we don't follow what is written.
"The goldly walk with integrity; blessed are their children who follow them", (Prov. 20:7). The New King James words it "The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him." What a beautiful promise! We all want our children to be blessed. So what is it we have to do to acquire that?
First, if we are, in fact, godly - if we are righteous, then we will walk with integrity. Righteous living produces integrity. Walking in integrity yields blessings on our children. Simple? Maybe - maybe not. What is integrity?
Integrity is defined in the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, as faithful support of a standard of values. Different words we could interchange with integrity are uprightness, righteousness, blameless, not wavering. We must be steadfast in our walk with the Lord, not tossed to and fro. What we do in the Lord, for the Lord and through the Lord must not change. But how do we accomplish that on a daily basis? We must be living by the word; reading it daily, not compromising on what God is telling us to do. We must submit to the teaching of the Holy Spirit. How do we know if we are doing what we're supposed to? It starts with literally living by the word once we've made a confession to Christ and invited Him into our heart to be Lord and savior. The measuring stick of how we are doing can always be the word of God. How our life compares to what the scriptures say!
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