Three Things to Look For
Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the honest keeps them on track; the deviousness of crooks brings them to ruin.
It’s ever so easy to become bedazzled by the success of others. And, as successful people go, businessman and investor Warren Buffet is right up there. Born in little old Omaha, Nebraska, he’s currently worth around $140 billion US dollars making him the world’s ninth-richest person. Not bad.
Now, I’ve been to Omaha. It’s nice, but it’s nothing special. With a population of less than half a million, it’s your typical small mid-western American city. And yet, out of it arose perhaps one of the most successful investors in all of human history.
But Warren Edward Buffet, as Chairman of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, ain’t your typical loud-mouth rich boy. He’s smart, he’s humble and he packs quite a bit of wisdom. He once said, “I look for three things in a person – intelligence, energy and integrity. If they don’t have the last one, I don’t even bother with the first two.”
Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the honest keeps them on track; the deviousness of crooks brings them to ruin.
Successful people are inevitably intelligent in their own particular way, and energetic; passionate about what they do. But unless that’s underpinned by honesty, decency and integrity, it will ultimately bring them to ruin.
So, how is it with you? Doubtless you have your particular abilities and passions, but behind them, behind the façade, deep in your heart, how’s your integrity? Come on, let’s get real here …behind what everyone else can see, how honest, how decent, how dependable are you?
Because … the integrity of the honest keeps them on track; the deviousness of crooks brings them to ruin
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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