Genesis 32:28 & Revelations 3:12
“Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. He that overcomes, I will write upon him Mine own New Name.”
What of Today’s Verse…
THROUGH THE Bible, name stands for nature. In those wise old days, names were not given because of their euphonious sound, but as revealing some characteristic trait. Shepherds are said to name their sheep by their defects; in some cases Old Testament, names seem to have been given on the same principle. It was so with Jacob. When the Angel said: “What is thy name?” he answered, “Jacob,” supplanted: Never shrink, in your dealings with God, to call yourself by your own specific title, whether it be the least of all saints, the chief of sinners, or the dissembler and cheat!
The first condition of losing our old nature is to confess to its possession; the next is to yield to God. Be conquered by God, yield to Him, and submit to His Will, especially in that one point where His Spirit presses thee hard. Life is full of the approaches of the wrestling Angel, only we rebut instead of allowing ourselves to be vanquished by Him. Each time we allow God to have His way in some new point of our character, we acquire the new name. In other words, a new phase of character is developed, a new touch of the Divine love passes into our being, and we are transformed more perfectly into His likeness, whose Name comprehends all names. Jacob becomes Israel; Simon becomes Peter the Rock-man; Saul becomes Paul the Apostle.
When God calls us by a new name, He communicates to us a new Name for Himself. In other words, He gives us a deeper revelation of Himself. He reveals attributes which before had been concealed. The Apostle in the Apocalypse tells us that every time we overcome, God gives to us a white stone, in which His new name is written, in evident reference to the pure diamond of the Urim and Thomism, by which He spoke to Israel, and on which Jehovah was engraved (Exo_28:29-30; Rev_2:17). Each victor over sin has his own stone of Urim, knows God’s will at first hand, and has revelations of God’s character, which only he knows to whom they are made (Mat_11:25).
Let us Pray:
Give unto us, O God, the white stone with the new Name written on it, that he only knows who receives it. Manifest Thyself to us, as Thou dost not to the world. AMEN.
Words of Wisdom
Found
I experience absolute peace and reassurance in God’s presence.
When it seemed as though something was missing in my life, I may have made a decision that I now wish I could cancel. Perhaps I was trying to fill emptiness within me with something outside of me, and now I know that does not work.
What I had been searching for, what I had needed, what I had yearned for was with me from the very beginning. In God, I found myself. In God, I found my way.
Each day as I place my trust in God, I surrender any past or present hurt. Knowing I am always in God’s loving presence, I experience absolute peace and reassurance. I am in God, and God is in me.
Centring myself in the indwelling presence of God, I live my life as the unique expression of God that I am. I am at peace, reassured, and fulfilled.
“‘He was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.” –Luke 15:24
