True Integrity

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
TRUE INTEGRITY
Prov 10:9
9 The man of integrity walks securely,
but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.
NIV
Why would someone chose to take a crooked path and what does it mean that he will be found out? Is that like surely your sins will find you out? If I were to live according to the ways of the world instead of by the ways of God, is that the crooked path? I think this is it. I think that if a person refuses to accept Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of their life, they are in fact on the crooked path. That person will be found out on the Day of Judgment. It also in opposition to the man of integrity applies to the way I live my life here on the earth in relationship with others. If I live with integrity I have nothing to fear from other men. I have nothing to be found out about that would harm my reputation, my name, my character. I have difficulty understanding how a believer in Jesus Christ could do anything but walk with integrity. Is it possible a believer could walk a crooked path? Could a believer act in a way that is deceptive, appearing to be righteous but actually not? Could I believer be doing righteous acts for self-gain, self-edification and self-fulfilling reasons? That would have to create within a real sense of insecurity, or those actions, those reasons could be the result of insecurity. I know that Jesus is my righteousness and that is the only way I can stand before God. I am secure in that fact, and I am secure in my relationship with God because of Jesus and not because of me. Surely as my heart beats, I can do nothing to warrant a place in the Kingdom of God, except acknowledge Jesus Christ as my Savior. To me that is true integrity.