Revelations

It’s interesting when God chooses to reveal more about Himself to His children.
My mom and I were doing our somewhat-regular Saturday routine (YardSaling :) and occasionally I finish before her and wait in the car. Such was the case today.
The happening is seldom, so I treasure the times when God reveals a truth in a fresh way. As I waited in our oven of a car, I began to ponder witnessing. Not witnessing as in the Gospel, but more of what I’m thinking when I witness to someone. Unfortunately, that too is a seldom occurrence. In times past, there have been a few times when after I’ve laid out the story of the cross, I ask the person I’m talking to if he or she would like to pray and ask God into their life, and they say yes. I rejoice, but in my fallen, human heart I think “I did it... it worked!” Of course I would be quick to tell you, maybe even as I’m feeling this way, “Oh, it’s not what I did that got this person saved. God did that.” but still inside I’m giving partial credit to myself. After all, I was the one communicating with this person.
What the Lord revealed to me today was the power of His name. The power of the name “JESUS.” That is the name that saved the person I was witnessing to. That was the power that made that person reply “yes” to a question I somewhat selfishly asked.


Most likely, if I was witnessing to this person, I didn’t know them very well, so I don’t know what was going on in their life before God caused our paths to cross. If this person honestly gave their life to Christ, it was because God had been working in them, whether they realized it or not. It wasn’t just some whim of a decision. It was a decision predestined before time. And that person was saved in Jesus’ name. They weren’t saved because of a creative word choice on my part, they were saved through the power of Jesus’ blood. God was working.

There is amazing power in the name of Jesus. Surely someone who hasn’t met him yet feels some sort of reaction in his or her spirit from His name alone. I think of that wonderful song we sing in church, Your Great Name, which says, “Lost are saved, find their way, at the sound of Your great name” and it goes on to say what miraculous and powerful things happen just at the mention of the name “JESUS”

It’s amazing how I can know something like this for years without it having pertinence and weight in my mind. It’s also amazing how God somehow reach through my pride and bring someone else to Himself, being patient with me as I pat myself on the back after a “success”

We serve a wonderful, merciful God.