SCRIPTURE: You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you. Hear my prayer, Lord; listen to my cry for mercy. When I am in distress, I call to you, because you answer me. Psalm 86:5-7 NIV
THOUGHT: Naming is a sacred thing. I love looking up the meaning of a friends’ name – it’s almost spooky sometimes how it helps explain who they are and even the things that they wrestle with. My name means “beloved warrior from the house of mercy” for example, and I both love it and struggle to believe it or live into why God may have allowed me this name. Sometimes I need to be reminded.
About four hundred years before David was born, God named himself for Moses as the “compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. (Ex. 34:6-7 NIV).” David loves and relies on God’s names, and he leans into them for his own sake, recounting back to God his trust in the goodness, mercy, love, listening ear, and answers waiting for those who trust and cry out to him.
God may not need to be reminded of who he is, but it sure won’t hurt him to hear his names come back from our own hearts and minds and mouths.
SONG: Goodness of God https://youtu.be/n3t6CdeiN1M
PRAYER: Oh God, as I speak out the names you gave yourself: compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining, forgiving, I am reminded of what a privilege it is to call you my God; I am in good hands. I will call to you when I am in distress because you are the God who answers.
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