I would like to talk to you today about
What is in a Name. Most have seen the
TV commercial where a well-known
person recommends a certain credit card.
You do not know the speaker by his face,
but you recognize his name as it appears
in the corner of his credit card. Names
supply personal identification and reveal
information about us. God is interested in
names.
In Bible times, a name revealed the character
of a person. Jacob meant “One who follows
on the heels of another.” It also means ‘to
overtake and replace by trickery and
deception.’ His rival was his own twin
brother, Esau. “Is not he rightfully named
Jacob?” cried Esau after Jacob had robbed
him of his birthright.
One day, Jacob learned Esau was coming
after him with four hundred men. His only
escape was to make things right, and he had
to start by making things right with God.
That night, as Jacob wrestled with the
heavenly angel, God gave Jacob a new name.
God is doing the same today. He gives a new
name and a new character to those who seek
Him. Is your name discouraged, disappointed,
or broken hearted? He waits to make all
things new. God changed Jacob, the deceiver,
to ‘Israel, A Prince with God.’ He is doing the
same for all who come to him through Christ
Jesus.
Father, give me a new name and let it be
written down in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Amen
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Revelation 2:17 KJV
He that overcometh,
the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name
out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and
before his angels. Revelation 3:5
KJV
