Your Name

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

October 20, 2025

Your Name

“. . . rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

Luke 10:20b (NRSV)

Your name is important. It is important to you, and to God. I was named for a 17^th Century relative who was an educator and Methodist preacher. In elementary school, I received a good bit of teasing for my name and for a few months pondered changing my name. I’m glad I didn’t; the older I become, the more important my heritage becomes to me.

I can remember walking out of a very crowded stadium and getting separated from my group; then I heard my daughter call me by my first name. I stopped and turned around. There is something about hearing our named called. I had a similar experience with my wife recently. We were sailing on a Tall Ship excursion in Halifax harbor. I was standing near the wheelhouse taking a picture of the sails unfurling with the wind. The captain offered to take a photo of me, and I wanted Cheryl to join me, but with the noise and ship’s movement I couldn’t get her attention. Then I called her name, and she turned towards me. (We got a great photo!)

Our names are so important to God, He has recorded them in heaven. Our names are so important to God, that in the moment we embraced Jesus as our Savior, heaven’s sky lit up like Boston Harbor on the 4^th of July.

My Takeaway: Let’s purpose in our heart to sit quietly before the Lord and listen for Him calling our name. Let’s also purpose in our life to rejoice here, as much as heaven’s rejoicing, when we learn of a person giving their heart to Jesus.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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