FRIDAY- 11TH AUGUST, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHY WE CALL HIM JESUS!
Matthew 1:21, KJV
"And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins".
While some people's names is a bundle of parents' or their pre, at or post births experiences, others' names clearly give an inkling into an expectation over them. As such, we have Noah, a child who's awaited to bring rest and relief to the people concerning the ground God has cursed. He's a type of Christ. A man ordained for the salvation of the world. A man raised to help people escape the wrath to come and this was the intent to building the ark.
While Joseph thinks of how to secretly put Mary away, an angel occured to him in his sleep telling him some things. He was told to take Mary because she was not at fault because "that which is in her is of the Holy Ghost". It's not what any man did there as Joseph had been thinking it to be (and so made jealous and corrupted in view) but what God Himself sovereignly wrought. On that basis, Joseph was comforted. Meanwhile, the disclosure goes further. The angel also said, Mary shall bring forth a son which Joseph shall call his name "Jesus" and that'll be because that son (who will be named Jesus) shall be the one to deliver his people from their sins".
This name of Jesus is an expectation and foreknowledge of His destiny or if you will, calling on earth. He has not even been born at this time. It is not a calling chosen for Him by the will of any man but one revealed of Him by God. God must sure have a reason in mind for having taken such initiative step.
I had said it that you could name after experiences already experienced or expectations being awaited. However, it is another thing naming after an expectation that is a revelation from God Himself to you. I'll say this is the highest form of naming. When God gives a disclosure and you name after that. Often, God has a purpose in mind and if we'll let all things originate from Him, we shall witness and be privy to His works and praise Him later for them. Until then however, we may believe we know better.
Names of people is therefore a coding, programming or capsule containing their destinies, assignments or life's task. By the sin of one man death comes into the world (Rom. 5:12). But we know that for this purpose the son of God appears that He might destroy the works of the devil (I John 3:8). Jesus brought us redemption from sin, death and all that are by products of sin so much more that if any man will believe in Him, such will not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
We've had people who have named their children Jesus. The first ask is what purpose would that child be fulfilling. Will he be delivering anybody from their sins? We may love some personalities or figures for their morals, righteous standing or what they became but that shouldn't make us confer on our babies their names just like that. Our babies are personally unique and may be different in assignment from those personalities. Something was in the mind of God and their parents before they were named that. Did you ask what was in the mind of God and search your own heart as well before naming yours? Many names are null and void on many people simply because that aren't their destiny names. Parents did not enquire. As such, many are bearing names that are irritating or contrary to their spirit names. What we don't know is that the spirit of every baby or child exists and lives before God even before birth. When did God say He had knew Jeremiah?
Jeremiah 1:5, KJV
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations".
Imagine, "before God formed him in the belly". So, where was he before that formation? Obviously before God! If that be that we are like already manufactured products awaiting dispatch in heaven, I want to believe there may be a tag with names put on each of us to identify, call or send us on errand into the womb of our mothers. As such, that's what we ought find and put in the mouth of every soul as they call that boy or girl.
"And His name shall be called Jesus because He shall deliver His people from their sins". You'd agree with me Jesus lived to that. He died on the cross of Calvary to buy us salvation. The free gift we have came at the price of His life. That's because that's His own assignment or destiny. So, He had to die. Some people's destinies may be magnificent and they may not need to die. What matters is to live out yours even if you have been misnamed. A found and lived out purpose can correct your wrong naming. I pray, may you know that the intent to your being born is to live for a purpose. The day you were born, you consciously have a task placed before you. In all your walks, you must walk that path and fulfill that purpose. If you walk other paths to the neglect of that, you'll have been esteemed as having visited the earth with no impact. I tell you, "you'll give account to God". Since the name of Jesus saves from sin and its effects therefore, say this short prayer to be saved.
PRAYER: Lord Jesus, thanks for coming and dying for me. I believe in Your works of salvation and I confess You as my Lord and Saviour.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 10:1-44; 1 Corinthians 6:1-20; Psalm 31:9-18; Proverbs 21:3
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