Friday, July 12, 2013

A Good Name





The Million Dollar Life

By William M. Self, Sr.




 




What is your name worth?


 

A Good Name

There are two names each one of us
should give special attention to…

Our first name and our last name.

The Bible says that an Elder (a person of respect
 in the Church) must have a good name.

Not only in the church, but outside the church.

A good name among his neighbors,
co-workers and business associates…

A person who has spent more time
 earning respect then money.

The second name is the family name.

Again, The Bible says an Elder
 must have his family in order.
 
Proverbs 22 says…

“A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.”

While you and I are earning a
living, we are also earning a name.

The same is true about the way we handle our resources.

Who you are is always more important than what you have.

Proverbs 22 gives us advice on how to get a good name.

Recognize you were created by
God just like everyone else. Verse 2

Avoid danger – don’t make the same mistake twice. Verse 3

Always choose the path of humility – fear the possibility
you may be wrong in some way before God. Verse 4

Guard your soul – the engine of your physical life,
 your emotions, intellect, and will. Verse 5

Train your children how to handle life. Verse 6


Be a lender not a borrower. Verse 7

Be generous and gracious in deed and speech. Verses 9, 11

Don’t be a slacker and make excuses,
 get done what needs to get done. Verse 13

Keep your life pure and receive discipline. Verses 14, 15

Don’t take advantage of the poor
and kiss up to the rich. Verse 16

If someone from your church met the people
who know you what would they say about you?

When you have a good name,
 people will bless you…

And you will feel like a Millionaire.


Scripture Reading

Ephesians 1:18-19 NIV
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know
 the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Proverbs 22 NIV
22 A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
2 Rich and poor have this in common:
The Lord is the Maker of them all.
3 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge,
but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
4 Humility and the fear of the Lord
bring wealth and honor and life.
5 In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares,
but he who guards his soul stays far from them.
6 Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
7 The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is servant to the lender.
8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,
and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
9 A generous man will himself be blessed,
for he shares his food with the poor.
10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
quarrels and insults are ended.
11 He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious
will have the king for his friend.
12 The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,
but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside!"
or, "I will be murdered in the streets!"
14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
he who is under the Lord's wrath will fall into it.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
and he who gives gifts to the rich — both come to poverty.   

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