Names

WE know a little girl who has been attending school for a few months and she has learned to print her name. One sees the child’s name printed in various places, and if she is given a paper and pencil she writes her name R-U-T-H several times.
No doubt most of our readers remember when they too, first wrote their names and many children are looking forward to the time when they will attend school and learn to read and write.
We read in John 10:3,3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. (John 10:3) “He calleth His own sheep by name and leadeth them out.” Yes, the Lord Jesus who laid down His life for His sheep, knows each one of His own by name and tenderly cares for them. If you have put your trust in the Lord Jesus as your own precious Saviour, you are one of His own redeemed ones and your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Oh, if you have not believed that the Lord Jesus bore your sins there at Calvary, you will never enter the heavenly city, but will have to bear your own judgment in Hell throughout eternity, for we read in Revelation 21:2727And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. (Revelation 21:27).
“And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”
Then we think of the Name which is above every name—the Name of Jesus, “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12). Have you dear reader, found the Name of Jesus precious to your soul?
“There’s a Name, the Name of Jesus
Far above all other names;
All in Heaven delight to hear it,
All delight to own its claims.
Ruined sinners learn its meaning,
And rejoice with those above;
Find it more than all things precious
Taught of God that Name is Love.”
Messages of the Love of God 2/1/1948