What's In A Name?

"Everyone has an image of God distorted in some way--we must, of course, since God transcends our capacities to imagine him."  - Philip Yancey

A name signifies identity. It's hard to imagine our world without names. Our language, culture, and society uses names as a basis for communication, learning, and survival.

A name can denote value or significance. We might label things as "priceless," or "one-of-a-kind." But these classifications change over time and place. Something valuable a century ago, might not be so today.

We are called humans. While a dog, whale, salamander, or grizzly bear is not. But even humans are not so unique among each other. Each one of us is just one individual part of an entire species.

There are millions more with similar characteristics, traits, and features. However, God is truly unique. There is no one, or anything else like him. He is, is and who was and who is to come (Revelation 1:8).

God is eternal and unchangeable. He is self-existent. Matthew Henry comments that, "He has his being of himself, and has no dependence upon any other." He is the beginning and the end (Revelation 20:13).

When God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," he was stating absolute fact (Exodus 3:14). In Isaiah 43:10, God says that, "Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me." There is only one God, and only one.

There is a multitude amount of information about humans. Yet, we will never begin to know everything there is to know about God. It's good enough for us to know that he is what he is, what he ever was, and ever will be, for now. (Job 26:14).

It's also sufficient to know that he is steadfast and truthful in his promises, unmovable in his word and nature, and unlike other humans, is incapable of telling a lie (Titus 1:2). His name declares what he is to us. He is God and there is no other like him (Isaiah 44:6-8).

Scripture: Jeremiah 10:10; Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 26:4; John 1:1; Psalm 100:5

Prayer: To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever, amen. - 1 Timothy 1:17 

God bless you,

Lauren