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SEEK TO KNOW THE NAMES OF GOD
Yesterday we talked about rejoicing in the name of the Lord. However, to effectively rejoice in His name we need to KNOW HIS NAME. We can never know God fully for He is incomprehensible. However, in His mercy He chooses to reveal His attributes to us through His names.
To know and understand the names and attributes of God should be the greatest pursuit of our lives. Our knowledge of Him determines our walk with Him. And our walk with God determines the way we run our home and mother our children. Also, it’s only as we know God that we can reveal Him to our children.
Here is a good idea for you that I found a great blessing. As you read God's Word, look out for Scriptures which reveal the names of God and His attributes--His faithfulness, longsuffering, love, mercy, justice and judgment, vengeance, holiness, goodness, wisdom, and so on. We often stay stuck on God's love and do not understand the full character of God. Get a notebook and make headings of God’s names and attributes you discover. Write the appropriate Scriptures under each heading. You will eventually have your own personal concordance of the character of God.
As you meditate upon these Scriptures and ask God to give you more understanding and reveal Himself to you through His names, you will come to know Him more and more. You can also take a different heading from time to time and read the Scriptures to your children, perhaps at Family Devotions, and discuss them together. There is no more powerful thing you can do than teach your children to understand and experience the names of God in their lives. I am sure you are like me. You don’t want your children to only know about God, but to truly KNOW Him.
And the more you know of His name, the more you will rejoice in His names.
God bless you and your family today,
Nancy Campbell
