Every time I ask this question, boys and girls will start blurting out in unison: "It is a name of person, a thing, or an animal!" They know this basic concept: everything and everyone has a name.
A first grader once asked me, "Why does everything has a name?"
It just is. Everything has a name, at least everything that is known. It is a tool for communication.
How can I respond if I'm not called to?
How can I buy something if I can't tell what it is I want to buy?
How can people travel if they don't know the name of the place they are going to?
How can you get a grip of your emotion if you can't name the emotion running deep within you? Anger, fear, betrayal, rejection, desolation...
How can you find a cure for an illness if you do not know what it is called?
Fever, hepatitis, chicken pox, pneumonia, cancer, HIV...
How can you seek for help, if you can't name what you need?
Food, money, friend, hope, approval, love, salvation...
There must be a gazillion names out there, but guess what? There is a Name that is above every and all names.
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place, and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and in heaven and on earth and under earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-11 (italics mine)
Imagine that! Name your greatest fear and Jesus is above that name! Isolation? Sickness? Death? The psalmist said, "Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you shall honor Me." (Psalm 50:15).
Call upon the name of Jesus for at the name of Jesus, every knee in heaven, on earth, and under earth bow down and tremble! Praise His Holy Name!!
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Romans 10:13
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