HEARTLIGHT(R) Magazine: Two Minute Meditations: Guess Who's Looking In Your Cookie


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others to hold us accountable? What happens when we know someone is in our cookie? Hmm…maybe it’s time we did several things to help us be people of both public and private integrity.

First, let’s remember that character and integrity are defined by who we are when we think no one is looking. Our heart is won or lost in our private, interior world. What happens in this world ultimately works itself out in our public life. And even if “no one else knows,” we do and God does. “Victimless crimes” are not victimless—they destroy something inside of us and erect a wall of shame between us and God.

Second, let’s put ourselves into a prayer team or small group Bible study where we do have genuine accountability. Satan can destroy us much more easily as long as we remain alone, but woven together into a relationship with others, we form a “cord of three strands which is not easily broken.”

Despite the appearance of privacy, someone’s always been in our cookie. So now that we know, let’s commit to be people of integrity and character.

“For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” — Ecclesiastes 12:14