Everyone lives by rules that govern their thoughts and behaviors. These rules may be well-defined or just hanging loose in your sub-conscious. Some rules include perfectionist tendencies for safeguarding your integrity. Always being kind and generous, while difficult to do, is practicing the Golden Rule.
A successful college career requires persistent learning and good grades, but honesty and integrity are mainstays for healthy self-esteem. These attitudes and actions build self-respect and confidence. Sampson’s rules for life were based on pride and self-centeredness. He advocated taking shortcuts to wealth and fame, but instead built a bridge to failure and disgrace.
Do the rules you follow produce joy and peace or create anxiety and worry that generate conflict anchored in destructive pride? Rules that assure faithfulness and integrity with respect for others and oneself build a bridge to healthy and secure relationships. God's wonderful imperatives demonstrate his love for you.
Are there any of you who are wise and understanding? You are to prove it by your good life, by your good deeds performed with humility and wisdom.
~James 3:13 Good News Bible
Point out your rules to me, Lord, and I won't disobey even one of them. Help me to understand your Law; I promise to obey it with all my heart.
~Psalm 119:33-34 Contemporary English Version
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