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Proverbs :)
Rather than wealth, choose a good reputation, 
esteem over silver and gold.
Proverbs 22:1 cjb
I'd like it all thanks. 
Just been imagining being offered $10mil or a good reputation, and my heart says "take the money - with that you can build your reputation & you will be held in esteem".
The world doesn't work like that but my heart does. 
In my heart I want it all.
But a good reputation, being held in esteem can't be given or inherited or won or purchased. These things come from a life of love and care and serving. 
But my shakey heart thinks they can - I connect wealth and power and authority with character, and often that is not true. 
What about you?
What would you choose?

Jesus chose to leave wealth and power and join us, become one of us.
He came and washed feet. He'd be at church early Sunday cleaning the toilets and vacuuming the floor.
He gathered no wealth (left all his money with Judas) and didn't seek a good reputation either. He simply did what his Heavenly Father asked, out of love did what was right, spoke life, brought healing, and gave...
This proverb reminds us that we get to choose what we're after, what we're about, who we follow...
#proverbs
#wisdom
#somethingtochewon
#choose

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