Seize the Moment – Day 771
The Power of a Reputation!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, April 27.
What is your name worth to you? I have learned the power of a reputation. People anticipate what you will do based on what you have done. For example, growing up in a small town in Connecticut, I was a successful student-athlete, an Eagle scout, and a leader in the Civil Air Patrol. It did not surprise anyone when I got accepted to West Point because my reputation had gone before me, just like a resume goes before a job interview.
Even though David had a good reputation with Achish, the king of Gath, the lords of the Philistines were not willing to put their men at risk by having David fight with them. In 1 Samuel 29:4-5, we see why, David’s reputation had gone before him:
But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man go back, that he may return to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. For with what could this man make himself acceptable to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of these men? Is this not David, of whom they sing in the dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands’?”
Seize the moment and build your life on the reputation of the powerful name of Jesus.