"Lost are saved, find their way, at the sound of Your great name...
All condemned feel no shame, at the sound of Your great name...
Every fear has no place, at the sound of Your great name...
The enemy, he has to leave, at the sound of Your great name..."
God's name is HOLY. His name is powerful and pure; it's beautiful and mighty. God's name is so perfect that every time it is mentioned, He is proclaimed. Even when people use His name in vain and swear, they are proclaiming His name without realizing it. The sound of Jesus' great name is so incredibly great that even just the sound of His name brings about healing, drives out demons, and can do mighty things.
And that's just His name! That's not even his personage. It's not like we're talking about an arm or a leg, or His face-- it's a title we give Him. The human names we use to talk about God aren't even His real name, the name of I AM. A simple title has such power? I can't even fathom how powerful God is then, if only His name can create such amazing things!
When I think of this concept, an image comes to mind to help me visualize it. I picture God standing in the form of a man, wearing flowing robes, and He is incredibly bright and shines with a yellow light that looks more magnificent than the sun. It's glowing and almost sparkling when He moves. I picture Him walking past me, and my eye catches a glimpse of the edge of the glowing robe; or, rather, a single drop of the light falls off of His robe. This one drop is His name, and in the one drop of the edge of His robe we are saved. In this one drop, the enemy has to leave. In this one drop, we are able to cast out demons.
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS! Am I the only one seeing this?? I sure hope not. If just the words we use to describe Him are this powerful, why is everyone on earth not bowing down before Him in awe and in fear? Every time I picture this image, I literally fall to my knees in worship. I want to burst into tears because of the beauty He has shown us. And I want to live my life for Him, not for myself or for anyone else. It gets even more awesome than this, though. If you're a believer and a follower of Christ, when you die you go to heaven. And in heaven, we will be in the presence of the Lord for all eternity. Like, forever. Seriously, guys. I'm kind of super excited about this. Because this is how powerful and mighty He is-- yet He chose to send His son to die for us. For me. For you. He took our sins from us and has made us white as snow. And now we have the chance to spread His love to the world!
I don't know about you, but I want to go around telling people about Jesus simply because proclaiming His name is so awesome! Even if they roll their eyes at me and ignore me, I get to say the name of God out loud and that in itself is a proclamation of how majestic He is!
That's about it. Just wanted you all to be aware of that very cool fact.
As I used to say when I was a kid...no tricks, no lies, no jokes, no kidding! It's for real!
~Laurel
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