Week 18 Day 4

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What It Means to Be Godly

Comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

While we journey, let us

Help each other on the road;

Foes on every side beset us,

Snares through all the way are strew’d:

It behooves us,

Each to bear a brother’s load.

What’s the definition of godliness? For Lincoln, it wasn’t piousness or churchgoing. The righteous, the eternally rewarded, was the person who knew the truth and lived a life of sincerity. “In very truth, he was the noblest work of God—an honest man,” he wrote to the widow of a soldier killed in action. Lincoln esteemed honesty above all else. To “have religion” meant little to Abraham Lincoln if a person wasn’t true to himself. That was a principle he learned from the Bible, and it stuck with him throughout his life. Is your word your honor? Guard it, and you can be sure you’ll too be recognized as a noble work of God.