Thursday, December 16, 2010


O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength. Because of Your adversaries, To make the e...nemy and the revengeful cease.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?

Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field, The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
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Upon reading this scripture, God revealed a question to me. How excellent or very good is His name in all the earth? A large part of the inhabitants of this biosphere believes in God in one form or another, i.e. Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Because of this belief, we understand that we are created in His image and likeness. Because of this image and likeness and our acceptance of the knowledge of it, we are given or become the name of God. We are His signature because we represent Him to our world. We are his name because His spirit exists inside us so others can see Him through us.  Therefore, the question is asked, how excellent is those who have been called by my name in all the earth?
At first I answered, God, I am very good because your word said when you made man God declared man excellent like his own name. However, I remembered the destructiveness of my sin. Sin changed what God had declared excellent into a walking bag of decaying fecal matter and my righteousness became as filthy rags.  After that revelation, I became ashamed. Then God took me in the spirit to Golgotha Hill and revealed His real goodness to me. He stretched out his arms and died so this walking bag of decaying fecal matter, a sinful signature of God, could become very good again.  
Then he said, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this that he lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command…. Love each other.” Afterwards, He closed his eyes and died.  
Back in my prayer closet, I kneeled amazed by the revelation. Since I am His, I must follow his command. Regardless of how I feel, I must really love my fellowman. I must love him or her as my God loved me. I must literally lay down my life so others may live because His name is very good in all the earth. To God his name is so excellent that in spite of our sins, he chose to die for those called by his name. Now that we carry his name as the children, man and women of God, we must do just as God command. We must stop watching as our friends, families, and others lay dying in sin along the road. We must reveal to them that greater love. That love that demand we lay down our lives, the things that concern us the most or even the simple enjoyment of our day, and help them that we see suffering along the way.