Like so many, I am looking forward to celebrating Christmas. Focusing on what it is truly about is important to me and I am spending time this week reading Scripture that is all too familiar, but still so fresh and new.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6
I am slightly obsessed with names. It may take me a while to remember a name, but once I get it, I rarely forget it. And I would much rather put faces with names in ministry…like in Guatemala…or anywhere else in the world…where I believe with all that I am that people are more than statistics and projects. Each person has a name and a story.
Perhaps that is why I so love the many names of Jesus. Because he is more than just someone that was born and died. Because he has the best story and it is never ending. As if I had never read it before, what “he will be called” has stirred my heart in a new way tonight and I can’t help but speak his name which describes so much of what he is to me.
He IS called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace and by me he is called Savior, Almighty, Healer, King of Kings, Bread of Life and Living Water, Messiah, Holy One, Emmanuel, Comforter, Redeemer. Jesus. And this is just what I find myself saying. A quick google search reveals hundreds of names by which he is called (whether they are accurate or inaccurate I do not know). Oh how I love to speak his name…the one name that has more power than any other…the one that I live and would die for…the one who left his throne to save sinners like me.
With such a powerful meaning, how could I lose sight of what Christmas if really about?
From our family to yours, Merry Christmas. May you be filled with peace, love and joy during this most beautiful season.
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