1 Kings 9:4 · World English Bible
As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
To walk before the presence is to move through the day with awareness as your companion, alert to each step as it is taken. Integrity of heart names the wholeness of a person no longer split between what they show and what they hide, no longer arguing with the moment they stand in.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
To walk before the presence is to move through the day with awareness as your companion, alert to each step as it is taken. Integrity of heart names the wholeness of a person no longer split between what they show and what they hide, no longer arguing with the moment they stand in.
When that inner divide closes, action rises from one undivided place, and outer life falls into line with the stillness underneath. The scattered self wants everything at once. Someone who has come home to what was always present acts in uprightness without strain, because nothing in them is fighting the ground they walk on.
Ego v. Being lens
Where are you still fighting the ground you are standing on?
Water takes the shape of the ground without arguing with it, and nothing is stronger. Strain comes from fighting the place you stand.
Let what you think, say, and do be one thing. A person at war with themselves is the hardest work there is.
Walk with awareness as a companion and the path takes care of itself. Attention is the whole of right conduct.
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Ego v. Being