THE SWEETEST NAME
Some people may think that I mention Jesus too often। No, I’m not trying to impress anyone by being religious। Really and truly, I just love Jesus। He is my best friend, the one I think of many times a day. When I have a problem I go to Him in prayer, because I know He can handle anything॥ He has all the answers। He even has a reason for allowing me to have problems that will motivate me to go to Him in prayer।
Jesus is a real Person। He is God। He is the Word, the full expression of the triune God, the one who reveals God to us. Chapter one of John clearly says Jesus is the Word. The Word is God and the Word was with God eternally. And then 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem the Word was made flesh so we could know God personally.
Have you heard the Word this week? Does Jesus speak to you regularly? The Word is not an audible voice, but if you have been reading the Bible every day as you should, God Himself has been speaking to you।
Give Him honor! Give Him praise! Trust in Him completely, and do what He says। Religion is doing what church leaders ask of you. I prefer to get my orders from Jesus personally. "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." Philippians 2:9-10
Jesus is the sweetest name I know! Just speaking His name brings me comfort, because He is alive today। He rose from the grave. He walked and talked in Jerusalem after His resurrection. and people saw Him with their physical eyes before He ascended to heaven. Now, in 2008, we see Him with the eyes of faith. Is He real to you?
The prayer request I had most often as a child was that I could know for sure my daddy was saved from sin। My parents were divorced when I was ten years old, so I didn’t know my dad very well. I saw him one time about a year after he left our home, but I didn’t know whether he loved Jesus.
As I grew older I often prayed that Daddy would trust in Jesus for salvation। I cried myself to sleep sometimes, asking God to reveal Himself to my father. I wanted him to love Jesus and trust Jesus for salvation so that someday we could be together in heaven.
Then I remembered something that had been in my subconscious memory for a long time। One day when I was ten, soon after Daddy left home, he came to get me at school and took me out for a drive to the ocean. I remembered the hilly road that took us to Long Beach. There were no freeways then, and the road went up and down, up and down like a roller coaster. Daddy loved the beach, and I guess he just wanted to be with me.
I remembered what my father sang as he drove me to the beach, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know, fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go।"
Many years later when I was fully grown, I visited my father briefly in his apartment in Utah। On the bed I saw the Bible he had been reading. And in his conversation I discovered that he did love Jesus. Jesus had helped him through the trials of his life. He had more than warm feelings about God. He had faith that Jesus was his "personal" Savior. Yes, Jesus is the sweetest name I know, and He grows sweeter every day. Sing it with me...
There’s within my heart a melody, Jesus whispers sweet and low,
"Fear not, I am with thee, peace be still," In all of life’s ebb and flow.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know,
Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go।
All my life was wrecked by sin and strife, Discord filled my heart with pain,
Jesus swept across the broken strings, Stirred the slumbering chords again.
Tho’ sometimes He leads thro’ waters deep, Trials fall across the way,
Tho’ sometimes the path seems rough and steep, See His footprints all the way।
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know,
Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go. (By L. B. Bridgers)
Rosemary Watson
Some people may think that I mention Jesus too often। No, I’m not trying to impress anyone by being religious। Really and truly, I just love Jesus। He is my best friend, the one I think of many times a day. When I have a problem I go to Him in prayer, because I know He can handle anything॥ He has all the answers। He even has a reason for allowing me to have problems that will motivate me to go to Him in prayer।
Jesus is a real Person। He is God। He is the Word, the full expression of the triune God, the one who reveals God to us. Chapter one of John clearly says Jesus is the Word. The Word is God and the Word was with God eternally. And then 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem the Word was made flesh so we could know God personally.
Have you heard the Word this week? Does Jesus speak to you regularly? The Word is not an audible voice, but if you have been reading the Bible every day as you should, God Himself has been speaking to you।
Give Him honor! Give Him praise! Trust in Him completely, and do what He says। Religion is doing what church leaders ask of you. I prefer to get my orders from Jesus personally. "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." Philippians 2:9-10
Jesus is the sweetest name I know! Just speaking His name brings me comfort, because He is alive today। He rose from the grave. He walked and talked in Jerusalem after His resurrection. and people saw Him with their physical eyes before He ascended to heaven. Now, in 2008, we see Him with the eyes of faith. Is He real to you?
The prayer request I had most often as a child was that I could know for sure my daddy was saved from sin। My parents were divorced when I was ten years old, so I didn’t know my dad very well. I saw him one time about a year after he left our home, but I didn’t know whether he loved Jesus.
As I grew older I often prayed that Daddy would trust in Jesus for salvation। I cried myself to sleep sometimes, asking God to reveal Himself to my father. I wanted him to love Jesus and trust Jesus for salvation so that someday we could be together in heaven.
Then I remembered something that had been in my subconscious memory for a long time। One day when I was ten, soon after Daddy left home, he came to get me at school and took me out for a drive to the ocean. I remembered the hilly road that took us to Long Beach. There were no freeways then, and the road went up and down, up and down like a roller coaster. Daddy loved the beach, and I guess he just wanted to be with me.
I remembered what my father sang as he drove me to the beach, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know, fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go।"
Many years later when I was fully grown, I visited my father briefly in his apartment in Utah। On the bed I saw the Bible he had been reading. And in his conversation I discovered that he did love Jesus. Jesus had helped him through the trials of his life. He had more than warm feelings about God. He had faith that Jesus was his "personal" Savior. Yes, Jesus is the sweetest name I know, and He grows sweeter every day. Sing it with me...
There’s within my heart a melody, Jesus whispers sweet and low,
"Fear not, I am with thee, peace be still," In all of life’s ebb and flow.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know,
Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go।
All my life was wrecked by sin and strife, Discord filled my heart with pain,
Jesus swept across the broken strings, Stirred the slumbering chords again.
Tho’ sometimes He leads thro’ waters deep, Trials fall across the way,
Tho’ sometimes the path seems rough and steep, See His footprints all the way।
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know,
Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go. (By L. B. Bridgers)
Rosemary Watson
posted by Rosemary @ 10:22 AM
