PR 22:1 teaches us that “A good name is more desirable than great riches.” It is more valuable because it is more difficult to obtain and once lost is almost impossible to regain. As PR 15:17 says, “Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.” Or 16:19, “Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.”
Our good character traits are the only thing we can take to heaven. These are the treasures Jesus teaches us to store up in heaven (MT 6:20). How sad it is when people sell their souls for money, and even more tragic when their reputations are just thrown away like trash.
PR 22:6. “Train a child in the way he [or she] should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” This is true most of the time or as a general principle, but of course when a child becomes an adult he/she has a free will and is responsible for his/her own moral decisions. Training means modeling or practicing what we preach, so that a child has no good or valid reason to rebel against the parents--and thus against God.
Our good character traits are the only thing we can take to heaven. These are the treasures Jesus teaches us to store up in heaven (MT 6:20). How sad it is when people sell their souls for money, and even more tragic when their reputations are just thrown away like trash.
PR 22:6. “Train a child in the way he [or she] should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” This is true most of the time or as a general principle, but of course when a child becomes an adult he/she has a free will and is responsible for his/her own moral decisions. Training means modeling or practicing what we preach, so that a child has no good or valid reason to rebel against the parents--and thus against God.
