When I named
my 2nd daughter Kari, I had no idea how popular that name was that
year. It seems names go in trends. One of the hottest baby name trends for 2015
has to do name endings. Parents putting trendy endings like "bella"
for girls or "ett" for boys before whatever comes at the start of a name. The
super-popular Isabella is joined by Arabella, Mirabella, and Rosabella, while
the fashionable Emmett welcomes brothers Beckett, Everett, and Bennett. Other
stylish endings include "er" as in Harper and Miller and "s" for seemingly any
boys’ name, from Atticus to Silas to Zacharias.
It is fun to
see what names mean and often parents take the meaning of a name into
consideration when they name their babies.
Such was the case with GOD when HE chose a name for HIS SON. At 2 different times an angel related GOD’s
message of what to name HIS SON.
1st he told Mary Luke 1:31 and later Joseph Matthew 1:21 which
left no doubt in their minds what to name the baby.
Then as Mary
lay in the hay in the stable after her baby was born, I think she must have
looked over at him lying in the manager and with wonder thought of her baby’s
name, JESUS. It meant something very
special. The angel had said: “You shall call HIS name JESUS for HE will
save HIS people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21
Acts 2:21
Everyone who calls on the name of the
LORD (JESUS) shall be saved.
Acts
4:10,12then know this, you and all the people of Israel: it is by the name of JESUS CHRIST of
Nazareth, who you crucified but whom GOD raised from the dead, that this man
stand before you healed. ..Salvation is found in no one else, for
there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be
saved.
Acts 22:16and
now what are you waiting for? Arise and
be baptized and also wash away your sins
by calling on HIS name.
I Corinthians
6:11 And such were some of you, but you
were washed (of your sins), but you
were sanctified (set apart for GOD), but you were justified (made just as if you had
never sinned) in the name of the
LORD JESUS CHRIST by the SPIRIT
of our GOD.
Have you
called on the name of JESUS to wash away your sins and save you? If not, what are you waiting for?
Hugs
Sharon
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