{"id":8689,"date":"2024-06-26T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=8689"},"modified":"2024-05-07T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T23:25:18","slug":"proverbs-221-a-good-name-is-to-be-chosen-rather-than-great-riches-loving-favor-rather-than-silver-and-gold-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=8689","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs 22:1: “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, \/ Loving favor rather than silver and gold.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the bumper sticker that reads: “He who dies with the most toys . . . dies.” Whether or not a person has acquired riches in their lifetime is a poor measuring stick of success and significance. The best measure, after salvation, is whether or not the person has, as this verse says literally, godly credibility or a good name. Did they practice integrity, were they honorable in their personal relationships? A person should value these characteristics above all material possessions.<\/p>\n

Wilbur and Orville Wright are well known for carrying out the first successful air flight at Kittyhawk in 1903. They came from a close family, even though their father, a Bishop in United Brethren Church, was initially skeptical about their venture. When Wilbur died at the age of 45, his father left a record of the tragic event in his diary. It reads:<\/p>\n

\nMay 30, 1912
\nThis morning at 3:15, Wilbur passed away, aged 45 years, 1 month, and 14 days. A short life, full of consequences. An unfailing intellect, imperturbable temper, great self-reliance and as great modesty, seeing the right clearly, pursuing it steadfastly, he lived and died.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Wilbur\u2019s godly father, it was not making the first successful air flight that made Wilbur great, but his godly character.<\/p>\n

“LORD, help us to walk in the path of integrity in our words and actions this day.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the bumper sticker that reads: “He who dies with the most toys . . . dies.” Whether or not a person has acquired riches in their lifetime is a poor measuring stick of success and significance. The best measure, after salvation, is whether or not the person has, as this verse says literally, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8691,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions\/8691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}