What Would Your References Have to Say About You? -- Proverbs 3:3-4

With most jobs, you're asked to provide a list of references. You do so because you expect that person to say good things about you. But what if you couldn't choose who the references were? What would be said about you?

1. Would they say that you're the most hard-working person that they know, or that working comes to you about as quickly as paint dries?
2. Would they say that you hold on to grudges like they're an ice cream cone or that you forgive people before they ever even ask you to?
3. Would they talk about how knowing you makes them want to be a better Christian, or that you make all Christians seem like hypocrites.
4. Or worse yet, would the even know that you're a Christian?

"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man." - Proverbs 3:3-4 (NASB)

If you want a good name, a good reputation, be full of faith, love people with all your might and good always.

But take care not to be like the church in Sardis.

"To the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: 'I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead." - Revelation 3:1 (NASB).

Are you a hard worker? Do you look for opportunities to serve your God. Or do you have everybody fooled but yourself and your God.

What would your references say about you?