What's in a Name?

#10 Nature and Destiny in the Name

Posted: Sunday, July 14th, 2019
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About What’s In A Name? Series

What's in a name? Names identify, explain, and serve to distinguish one from another. What do God's names reveal to us about Him, coming from Him?

Devotional

Genesis 4:1-2 NASB
She conceived and gave birth to Cain, 
and she said, “I have gotten a manchild 
with the help of the Lord.” 
Again she gave birth to his brother Abel.

Cain means ‘to possess, to provoke to jealousy.’

Abel simply means ‘the son of Adam’ or in its root meaning, 
‘to become vain or transitory.’

From that time, every human being was given a name.
 The names of people in Scripture are strangely prophetic,
 pointing to their nature and destiny.

There is something about names that God loves. Of the billions and trillions of stars, to each one He gave a name!

Isaiah 40:26 NASB
Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name…

Other Devotionals in What’s In A Name? Series

#13 Unending Fellowship with God #12 God Can Begin When We End #11 Price of Failing to Wait
#10 Nature and Destiny in the Name (Currently Viewing)
#9 Mother of All the Living #8 Unique Identity Lost in the Fall #7 This is Now Bone of My Bones #6 To Name Every Living Thing #5 The Strange Way that Adam is Named #4 Choosing a Name is a Serious Matter #3 The Naming of Creation #2 Nothing Is without a Name #1 What is the Importance of a Name? Power in the Name #53 Our Shocking God #52 Much Fruit #51 Unending Multiplication #50 Vision of the Almighty #49 Only El Shaddai #48 God Inside #47 Blessings of the Deep #46 Foolish and Weak #45 The Mystery God #44 Childish and Untaught #43 Almighty Source #42 From the Field #41 Stars and Sand #40 Field and Seed #39 Abundance of the Triune God #38 God Commands and Completes #37 God of Impossibilities #36 To Live Without Needing God #35 God Almighty #34 God Revealed #33 Divine End #32 Faith is Not an Achievement #31 A Promise is His Command #30 Father of Many Nations #29 Destiny Enlarged #28 A New Name #27 The Unstoppable Effect #26 Our Blindness to God #25 Before God Almighty, Abram Fell #24 The Great I Will #23 End of Effort #22 The Great Possibility