22/06/2026
SINCERITY & HONESTY
What are the benefits and limitations of sincerity?
MONDAY | 06-22-2026:
BIBLE READING: Judges 17:1-13
KEY BIBLE VERSE: “I know the LORD will bless me now,” Micah said, “because I have a Levite serving as my priest.” (Judges 17:13, NLT)
SINCERITY MUST BE BASED ON THE TRUTH.
Micah and his mother seemed to be good and moral people and may have sincerely desired to worship God, but they disobeyed God by following their own desires instead of doing what God wanted. The attitude that prevailed in Micah’s day was this: “Everyone did whatever he wanted to.”
This is remarkably similar to today’s prevailing attitudes. But God has given us standards. He has not left our conduct up to us and our opinions. We can avoid conforming to society’s low standards by taking God’s commands seriously and applying them to life. Independence and self-reliance are positive traits, but only within the framework of God’s standards. Sincere belief in a lie does not equal the truth.
Today, as in Micah’s day, everyone seems to put his or her own interests first. Time has not changed human nature. Most people still reject God’s right way of living. The people in Micah’s time replaced the true worship of God with a homemade version of worship. As a result, justice was soon replaced by revenge and chaos. Ignoring God’s direction led to confusion and destruction.
Anyone who has not submitted to God will end up doing whatever seems right to them at the time. This tendency is present in all of us. To know what is really right and to have the strength to do it, we need to draw closer to God and his Word.
Lesson: SINCERITY & HONESTY
Prepared by: Rev. Delbert Hooge