"You may make what use you like of my name," is often said by those who have wealth and influence; and many are thankful to make use of such kindness. I remember being told of a woman who wanted to put her daughter in a certain school, and called one day to make inquiries. The interview was unfavorable; besides other objections, there was not a vacancy. As she was leaving she said, "Mrs. White told me to come to you." At once she was asked to sit down again, and in a little while satisfactory arrangements were made for her daughter to enter the school. What a change was brought about by just mentioning a certain name!
Does my reader know the value of the name of Jesus? How all prevailing and efficacious it is with God? Go to God in your own name, and it will be without success. Go to God in the name of Jesus, and He will save you and bless you. "Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins." "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In God the Father's ear;
When sinners at His throne are found
Pleading that name so dear.”
"God... hath given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow." Bow to the name of Jesus now, in the day of God's grace, or you must bow to it in the day of God's judgment.. God has declared that every knee shall, bow to the name of Jesus and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. And if the poor, lost, guilty sinner may come to God in the name of Jesus and obtain salvation, what may not the children of God expect, who ask all in this precious name? Jesus says Himself, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”
Is not this saying, as it were, "You may make what use you like of My name"? Do we thankfully avail ourselves of this so great a privilege?
To God, the name of Jesus is precious beyond compare. To the believer it is also precious. "Unto you therefore which believe He is precious.”
Dear reader, is the name of Jesus precious to you? He waits to save you. Oh, yield to His love. Turn to Him now in all your sins, and He will save you. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”