My hope is that this series will offer my readers a chance to consider the names, characteristics and descriptions of our God in the Word.
Our next set of names (#4 through #22) are considered His compound names, which typically uses His primary name and attaches a specific descriptor to it. These are the names that originally got me chasing this topic, and now it has developed into a much bigger study than the original intent, but I digress, for I have already mentioned this!
The Word is truly rich with descriptions of the Living God, and this effort of searching in the Word was quite illuminating. He truly is the ultimate subject of the Word, and His revelation of self-descriptions, or the accolades offered Him by His priests, prophets, kings apostles and faithful truly was a blessing.
May the Name of the Lord be praised, and by thinking on His name, may you have a blessed day.
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| JEHOVAH MEKODDISHKEM (THE LORD WHO SANCTIFIES YOU) |
| Leviticus 22:32 And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you, |
| To be sanctified. This is the Lord’s work in our lives and it is His character that motivates this work in our lives, His nature to sanctify us, to make us holy and set apart. When I first became a believer, I carried with me the thought that to be holy meant to be sinless. Now of course our Holy God is sinless, but I as a believer understand I am not. The longer I walk with the Lord, the more I am sure of my sinnin’ tendencies! Yet He sanctifies his church, of which yours truly is in. How can that be? A good friend and brother in the Lord once described sanctification with the following anecdote. As a youngin, he and his brother would work to make a few pennies during the week and wait with baited breath until the ice cream truck would pull into the neighborhood. Each week, the two boys would have their pennies in their sweaty little hands, but this one particular afternoon, my friends brother had lost his coins. Around the corner came the truck and my friend got himself a nice fresh ice cream cone, but in the back of his eye, he noticed his brother yearning for it, and maybe coming to get it. What did he do? He sanctified that ol’ ice cream cone. He licked every part of that ice cream, and if I know him at all, he probably licked the cone two or three times. There was no chance his big brudder was gonna eat any of that sweet frozen treat. He sanctified that treat. He made it his own. He set it apart from everyone else, especially his brudder! Of course this story leaves much to be desired in deep theological renumerations, but hey – it has stuck with me and when I think of our God in this way, I am reminded that He is the God Who sanctifies His people And in that sanctification, He draws us into a life of peace and holiness, a life of love and sacrifice, a life that is a natural response of someone who is so “licked”! Praise His name for His kindness and continual working in our lives. He is so good! |
I would love to hear of your favorite name, characteristic or description of the Living God. Please leave me a comment, and I will include it in the list!
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