Honesty before Man
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As we continue to dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, today we’ll explore what it means to live honestly before man. In a world of facades and striving, God wants to offer us freedom and confidence to be fully who he has made us to be. May you learn to value honesty above all else in dealing with those around you and find joy and peace abundant.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue to dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, |
| 0:10.0 | today we'll explore what it means to live honestly before man. |
| 0:15.0 | In a world of facades and striving, God wants to offer us freedom and confidence to be fully who he has made us to be. |
| 0:25.4 | May you learn to value honesty above all else in dealing with those around you and find joy and peace abundant. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 1:07.9 | Thank you. abundant. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 8 verse 21. |
| 1:09.6 | Scripture says, |
| 1:13.0 | For we aim at what is honorable, |
| 1:15.6 | not only in the Lord's sight, |
| 1:18.5 | but also in the sight of man. |
| 1:24.9 | The world is right now in an identity crisis. |
| 1:29.3 | With the global rise of social media and the internet, we can now project ourselves to the world as anything we want. |
| 1:34.3 | We've been given the option of only being partly known by countless people |
| 1:40.3 | rather than really known by a few. |
| 1:45.0 | We can attempt to fill a gap in our souls for love and relationship with the online world |
| 1:52.0 | rather than being fully known in our strengths and weaknesses, our greatest faults and soaring successes. |
| 2:00.0 | We're in need of an awakening of honesty. |
| 2:05.6 | Having an honest heart before man is the only path to experiencing true liberation from the |
| 2:12.6 | binding opinions of others. When we work tirelessly to build up a false self so that we can receive |
| 2:20.6 | affirmation from others, we never truly experience love. For our false self to be loved is not |
| 2:29.8 | truly love at all, because we constantly have the thought, if they really knew me, they |
| 2:36.8 | wouldn't love me. |
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