What's in a Name?

#4 Choosing a Name is a Serious Matter

Posted: Monday, July 8th, 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 is strangely void of any measure of time. Events happen beyond a framework of time. By time I mean our restricted sphere of known hours, days, years – where everything fits into intervals.

In Genesis, we know nothing of the passage of time for the entire story – how long “the man’s” task lasted. There was no search for the creatures. 
They were brought to “the man” by God Himself.

Did he seek to know each creature and name it by its identity? 
Did he commune with God to understand first? 
How fascinating!

A name is a serious matter.

God puts all of purpose and destiny 
into that which bears His chosen name. The name bespeaks a history.

Other Devotionals in What’s In A Name? Series

#18 Clearing the Path to God's Heart #17 Greater Than All We Know #16 The End of Human Effort #15 Numbers in Scripture #14 Treasure Old and New #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 #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 (Currently Viewing)
#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