GOODMORNING-A Good Name is to Be Chosen Over Great Riches
Once you become saved and born again in the Lord, that is just the beginning. From there, God wants you to grow in His knowledge and grace, along with setting you up in what your divine destiny is going to be in Him. And when God sets you up in your divine destiny, then you will find out exactly what you were created for and exactly what He will be wanting you to do for Him in this life.
Once you come into this full surrender with the Lord, He will then let you know who you should be marrying in this life, along which jobs you will be taking and exactly what your calling is going to be in Him.
Again, we cannot emphasize this theme strong enough. If you want to find out exactly what your true purpose and destiny is going to be in this life, then you have to be willing to fully surrender your entire life and your entire being into the hands of God the Father. Since God is all-knowing and all-powerful, only He will know exactly what you should be doing with your life, along with exactly how to get you to where you will need to go.
In this article, I want to add one more profound verse into this mix. Here is this most profound verse, and then I will point out a few, key things for all of us to really grab ahold of from this very powerful verse.
“A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.” (Proverbs 22:1)
1. When you really think about the big picture, this earthly life is very, very short. Sooner or later we will all die and cross over to the other side – which will either be heaven for the saved or hell for the unsaved.
As we have said before, no suitcases will need to be packed on your deathbed. Absolutely nothing will be crossing over with you to the other side once you die and cross over. Naked you came into this world and naked will you go out of this world. Plain and simple.
All of the money you have made and saved up in this life will not be crossing over with you. All of the material wealth you have acquired such as your house, your car, and your clothes will not be going with you. The only thing that will be going over to the other side is your soul and spirit once it pulls up out of your earthly body.
From there, if you are a Christian, you will then enter into heaven and you will then come before Jesus at His Judgment Seat where He will then do a full review of your life. The Bible says that Jesus will then be rewarding us up in heaven according to the good works we had done for Him while down here on this earth.
2. So knowing that this is how it will all end up for us as Christians, we all need to do an occasional review of our life from time to time so we can make sure that we are always staying on the right path with God and not straying off into areas that He would not want us to be going into in this life.
We also need to make sure that we always keep all of our priorities straight so we can stay on top of our game with the Lord and not miss out on any of the good blessings He will want to pass our way in this life.
My brother Chris and I live in the United States. God has blessed our country with incredible wealth and riches over the years. However, with all of these kinds of material blessings from the Lord, it becomes very easy for many to get off center with the Lord and start focusing and chasing after all the wrong things in this life.
And this is where the above verse is now going to come into major play. With our country having so much material wealth to play with and go after, many people end up spending the rest of their earthly lives chasing after all of this material wealth and trying to acquire as much of it as they can before they die and cross over.
However, sooner or later all of these people will eventually die and once again, absolutely nothing they have acquired and earned in this life will be going with them to the other side. And this will now bring us right into the real heart of the above verse.
3. Notice this verse is telling us that it is better to live for having a good name in this life rather than to chase after all of the material wealth of this world.
Why? Because when someone dies and all of their friends and family are attending their funeral service paying their last respects, what is the number one thing most people will remember about the one who has just passed away? The number one thing they will remember and take away with them is what kind of person they were and how well they had treated other people in this life.
They will not remember all of the riches and wealth they may have accumulated. They will only remember what kind of person they were and how well they had treated other people in this life.
If that person ends up dying with a good name, then people will have good, loving, and fond memories of that person and those memories will last forever. If that person was a mean, spiteful, and selfish person who cared about no one else but themselves, then people will walk away with negative memories and they will be glad this person will no longer be living among them.
How many times have you seen this at a funeral service when friends and family would get up to speak about the one who has just passed away, how they will always talk about what kind of person they were. This is always the first thing most people will talk about when they are talking about someone who has just passed away. They will always talk about the quality of their loved one’s personality, not how much money they had made or how many material blessings they had accumulated in this life.
This is why the Lord worded the above verse the way He did. He is trying to show all of us what is most important in this life. And what is most important in this life is that we try and become the best person we can in Him through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit.
If we can let God mold and shape us into the true saints He wants us to become in Him in this life, then we will be able to leave this life having a good name, just like the above verse is telling us to do. And if we can leave this life having a good name and a good reputation, then all of our loved ones will end up having good, loving, and fond memories of us.
This is how God wants us to leave this world, with us fully accomplishing all of His perfect will for our lives, and then with all of our loved ones really cherishing and loving us for the kind, good, and righteous people we were in this life.
CONCLUSION
As you can see from the way the above verse is being worded by the Lord, the only thing people will remember about you when everything is all finally said and done is what kind of person you were in this life. And yet so many people live this life for just the exact opposite. They live for all of the material wealth they can accumulate in this life instead of living for what God’s purpose was for their lives, along with what God was wanting to do with the transformation of their minds and their souls.
As we have showed you in our article titled, “Sanctification,” the number one thing God wants to do with each one of us is to transform us into the express image of His Son Jesus Christ. He wants to consecrate and set us apart unto Himself. He wants to make us more holy like Himself.
Bottom line – God is the Potter and we are the clay. If we can let God do the kind of transformation work He wants to do with each one of us, then we can leave this world having a very good name just like the above verse is telling us to do.
And if we can leave this world having a very good name, then we can have the satisfaction and fulfillment that we did everything God had asked us to do for Him in this life, along with leaving very fond and loving memories into the hearts of all of the people we had truly loved down here.
Though the above verse is a very short one-liner, there is an incredible piece of revelation contained in it showing us what we should all be striving for and what is really most important in this life.
Remember – when it is all said and done and you get ready to leave this world for the next one, no one will care about how much money you have made or how many earthy possessions you had accumulated. All they will remember is what kind of person in the Lord you had become and how well you had treated other people in this life.
Become the sanctified saint that God is asking you to become in Him, and you will then leave this world with a good name and good reputation – and people will then love you, cherish you, and always remember you for all of eternity.
MILLION DOLLAR CHICK
MILLION DOLLAR CHICK:Hello I’m (Edited out), the model you’re currently using on your site for the (Edited)party. I would like for my photo to be removed ASAP and if you have any contact information for the person holding the event I would like that as well. Please do so ASAP. Thank you very much.
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Thank You,
$1 METTY: Hi, if you notice the picture is used as a flyer for an event and I am not using it on my site. The person paid for advertising space and I don’t know who the person is. The contact details should be on the flyer.
MILLION DOLLAR CHICK: Thank you but I need you to remove my photo and my photographers photo period from the site weather it is paid for or not by the person. I don’t want my image being associated with a site or event like that. I’m not bashing Jamaicans because I am one however I’d like to continue to portray a high end classy image. Several people have brought your site to my attention using my pictures. I’m also aware that on your site you have stated that if a person sees there image on your site and would like it removed you will do so. I would like to see you hold true to your word. It’s bad enough that people are making a profit off of my beauty without my consent and my own people are promoting it. Also the flyer leave no contact information other than the venue. I am perfectly capable of handling this matter legally with both your site and this venue. You should not be upholding copyrighten material on your site even if it’s for a profit. Please remove my photo and don’t place it there again without my or (Edited out) authorization. Thank you very much.
$1 METTY: I cannot remove it as it does not belong to me. I already advised you on what to do, besides even if you are on a picture it does not mean it is your property. The picture rightly belongs to the photographer or company that took it and not yours. Your picture was not used in a post by me, I know what my disclaimer states. It states that if someone is uncomfortable with any article that is posted they have the right to ask for its removal. It is trivial ,baseless and useless for us to go back and fourth about nothing. Please have a good day and best of luck with your high class image.
MILLION DOLLAR CHICK: Darling that image belongs to me I paid for it now if you want to get sued because you prefer to be ignorant than that’s your problem I have the screen shots to your site and I can gladly get my lawyer in contact with you. Learn how to conduct business on your tacky low budget website! You’re lawfully suppose to make sure that all the images and advertisements on your site are okay to be used. You are advertising my likeness on your crappy site and defaming my character as well as my photographer. To be honest I don’t even know why your site is in existence you make your own Jamaican people look bad. Take my image off the site immediately! I’m not going to tell you again. Also try using a professional email address as your contact information next time…after all everything on your site doesn’t have to be low budget.
$1 METTY: Before you try to insult someone go learn some grammar and catch up on your spelling. Apparently you did poorly in school or didn’t spend the time to ingest what was needed to be digested for you to even explain yourself as a woman. You are an insult to yourself. You have the effrontery to even try to insult someone when you are what an insult looks like. Do I have your time? No . Have a wonderful night and if you continue to insult yourself be prepared to listen to echoes because as I stated before I do not have your kind of time. Do pick up a book while maintaining that high-class image. Image is nothing, education is everything. Get started today.
MILLION DOLLAR CHICK: LOL are you kidding me? Maybe you don’t know how to read correctly. I’ve insulted myself by telling you what a disgusting human you are for posting my work on your sight against my will defaming my character? LOL oh I’m sorry I’m insulting myself because I called you out on your disgusting pasa pasa website. Your site has 0% once of class and we both know that, well maybe you don’t since apparently you have judging by your “professional email address” LOL. Girl you’re a joke if I to make one video bad mouthing your site it would be over for you. If you’re unsure of who I am…since I’m the most important person ever featured on your trash box website google me and find out. So I hope you’re going to be at this trash box (Edited) event so I can see you there when I got to collect my money…maybe we can have a face to face? Who knows maybe I’ll teach you how to be high class as well lol. Oh…and apparently you do have the time look at the crap you post on your site. How about you stop bleaching your skin and wearing multicolored wigs, visiting the dancehall and having the camera man shoot up your smelly legs? Maybe then you can use the extra time to post about your country in a positive way. Have a lovely day bleach queen. REMOVE MY PHOTO!
METTER CAN YOU CIRCLE THE AMOUNT BELOW THAT THIS YOUNG LADY WANTED FROM THE PROMOTERS OF THE PARTY?
A) $50.00
B) $200.00
C) $100.00
D) You can’t believe it.
DI BEST LAWYER EVER
to whom may this concern my name is mr: willam’s am (Edited) lawyer l wood like for and to delete the things that was said about her on your site miss queenand have a blessed day i will be getting back to u if i dont see a change in this matter thank u and have a nice day sinecrly mr willams
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Illegal Immigrants’ Underground Lives Hobble Their U.S.-Born Children, Study Says
By KIRK SEMPLE
Published: May 20, 2011
Eulogia was scared and adrift. At 25, she was poor, pregnant and an illegal immigrant. She worried about how she would pay for medical care and raise her baby, and even whether a trip to the hospital might prompt her deportation to Mexico.
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Giovanna Baca, a speech-language pathologist, works with Miguel Angel Arista Juarez at Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service. It helps illegal immigrants and their children.
But when she plunged into a postpartum depression in 2003 after the birth of her daughter, the first of three children, a hospital social worker referred her and her husband to an East Harlem social service agency that has counseled them and helped them get care for their family and get the government assistance their children were eligible for as American citizens.
“I think I very am lucky,” Eulogia said in an interview this week, asking that her last name not be used because she still fears deportation. She said most illegal immigrant parents felt tremendously isolated and did not have “the confidence to ask for help.”
Indeed, a recently published study of the early development of children born to illegal immigrants in New York City suggests that most stories that begin like Eulogia’s do not end as well.
Even though the children have citizenship and live in an immigrant-friendly city that offers them a wide array of services, many are still hobbled by serious developmental and educational deficits resulting from their parents’ lives in the shadows, according to the study, whose author says it is the most comprehensive look to date at the effects of parents’ immigration status on young children.
“The undocumented are viewed in current policy debates as lawbreakers, laborers or victims — seldom as parents raising citizen children,” wrote the author, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, a Harvard education professor who has published the study as a book, “Immigrants Raising Citizens” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011).
Professor Yoshikawa found that by the time the children of illegal immigrants reached age 2, they showed significantly lower levels of language and cognitive development than the children of legal immigrants and native-born parents.
“Millions of the youngest citizens in the United States, simply by virtue of being born to a parent with a particular legal status, have less access to the learning opportunities that are the building blocks of adult productivity,” he wrote.
The implications for the nation are potentially far-reaching and long-lasting, he said, considering that of all preschool children of illegal immigrant parents in the United States, an estimated 91 percent — four million children — are American citizens.
Poor cognitive development can lead to lower school performance, which in turn can lead to higher dropout rates, an undertrained work force and lower economic productivity. “Ignoring these children has costs for society,” Professor Yoshikawa warned.
He and his team began their research by visiting maternity wards at public hospitals around New York in 2004 and getting permission to study nearly 400 babies newly born to Chinese, Dominican and Mexican parents, as well as to native-born African American parents. The researchers, who were affiliated with the Center for Research on Culture, Development and Education at New York University, followed the children for three years.
The researchers found that poor immigrants cannot afford learning materials or stimulating programs in child care centers. Fear of deportation or ignorance about how the city works often prevents those parents from seeking help from government agencies that provide child care subsidies or food stamps.
Many illegal immigrants, particularly those belonging to newer immigrant groups, like Mexicans in New York, have smaller extended families or less-developed social networks than others, and therefore fewer people around to help raise children.
The psychological stress suffered by illegal immigrants — many of whom work long hours for low wages and live in crowded, poorly maintained apartments — can be transmitted to young children, the study says.
“Greater hardship among parents, both economic and psychological,” Professor Yoshikawa wrote, “can harm children’s learning by lowering parents’ active engagement with their children, the quantity or quality of their language or their warmth and responsiveness.”
In an interview, he pointed out that illegal immigrants’ anxieties about seeking help — and those anxieties’ effects on children — could be even worse in places with “harsher” immigration policies.
Eulogia, the East Harlem mother, said she was brought to the United States by her parents when she was 11 and lived in a succession of cramped apartments in New York. She helped her parents sell flowers on the street to make ends meet. Though she graduated from high school, she remained an illegal immigrant, and imagined that her own children would live the same kind of existence.
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service — a community-based organization in East Harlem that provides counseling and other assistance to poor people, especially immigrants — helped Eulogia and her husband get food stamps and enroll in the federal Women, Infants and Children assistance program. Her eldest daughter, now 7, receives after-school tutoring at the center, while her second child, a 2-year-old boy, is getting speech therapy. And the family has secured better housing.
In his book, Professor Yoshikawa extols the work of groups like Family Health Service.
“By bringing these families out of the shadows and providing them with access to better work conditions and learning opportunities,” he wrote, “we can ensure that the nation’s most vulnerable young citizens have an equal chance to succeed in their early development, later schooling and adulthood.”
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