Reputations: Good or bad?

Lots of opinions in the world are based on reputations. Our opinions connect and reflect the different reputations that some people might have. A reputation can define a person but it can also bring others to believe something that is not true about that person.
For example: if there was this person and they were the nicest person on the planet but they have a reputation that says they steal, the majority of the people will not hang around them or be nice to them or pay any attention to the person because they have the reputation of being a thief. They could not be a thief but if their reputation is that of a thief, they will be seen as a thief.
That is one thing about reputations though. They are usually based on the truth of our characters. If you have a reputation of being nice and kind and gentle it is because you are nice and kind and gentle. There are some reputations which are false but the majority of the time they are based on the truth.
That is another thing. Let me ask you a question. What kind of reputation do you have? What kind of reputation do you want to have? Does it reflect your character? If so, is there something that you want to change about you and change your reputation?
God wants us to have a good reputation. One which says us to be kind and gentle and compassionate and caring. God wants us to help people and to put others before ourselves. He did that for us. He put us before himself and before his son. He gave the life of his son for us.
He wants us to have a good reputation and he wants us to reflect his light into this dark world. Our reputations are how this world sees us, so why not want to have a good one?