What is a Good Name?

A good name is better than precious ointment;

and the day of death than the day
 of one’s birth.

 Ecclesiastes 7:1

"Consider it spiritually, and, dear brethren, what is a good name?

A good name is a name

that is written in the Lamb’s book of life,

and that is better than the sweetest of all ointments.

“A good name.” Why, that must be a name written upon the breastplate of the great High Priest. If you could have gone up to the high priest of old you would have read there “Reuben,”

“Simeon,” “Levi,” “Judah,” “Dan,” “Gad,” “Naphtali,” and the like; and they were all good names when once they were engraven there.
What a blessed place to have your name inscribed— not upon a jewel that shall hang on the breast of a man, but upon the very heart of Jesus Christ your Lord.
If you could see your name written on the palms of his hands you would say, “It is a good name that is written there. Blessed be the Lord that ever I had that name, insignificant as it is.”

Better is the day of death than our birthday, because about the birthday there hangs uncertainty.
Our death day will be the loss of all losses.
Life is made up of losses, but death loses losses.
Life is full of crosses, but death is the cross that brings crosses to an end.
Death is the last enemy, and turns out to be the death of every enemy."
Charles Spurgeon