Monday, May 7, 2012

May 7 - Psalm 75:1

O God … we give thanks;
your name is near.
Psalm 75:1

Why do you give thanks?

If you’re like me, you usually give thanks for tangible blessings: a safe home, a good job, a child’s graduation, a handful of loved ones, a victory over addiction.

You probably give thanks also for emotional, spiritual, and psychological blessings. Things like peace, hope, joy, forgiveness.

You may even give thanks for God. “Thank God for God!”

But do you give thanks for his name?

What does that even mean?

It’s not the word itself – Jesus or Yahweh (translated LORD) – that has power. Rather, when someone shares with us their name, it’s an invitation relationship.

Think of the story Exodus 3 story between God and Moses. When God revealed his name, the Lord himself opened a door to greater intimacy. Therefore, when the Psalmist says that “your name is near,” it celebrates that “God’s intimacy is near.”

Furthermore, saying that “when two or three are gathered in the name of Jesus,” it does not mean that his vague presence is swirling a little closer by; it means that a channel has opened for an intimate connection between heaven and earth. And there is “power in that name.” Which means what? There is power precisely when and whenever we connect to God intimately.

In Christ’s Love,
a guy who needs to reintroduce him Yahweh
whenever I’m feeling powerless or far



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