{5 minute musing (+ 5 minute editing ;-) on one portion of today's reading.}
"...only let us be called by your name." Isaiah 4:1
This half a sentence - a cry, a pleading. Please let me be called by your name!
To be called by the Lord's name is to be associated with Him, to be grouped with Him, to be owned by Him. If I have His name, I'm family. His name is an external sign for all to see that I'm related.
I belong.
I have a place. I never need to wonder who I am. I never need to fear because protection is implied by sharing a name. I know that someone will fight for me, that someone will stand up for me.
Also implied by the fact of sharing a name is being chosen. Unless I was born to this name, the only way I can share it is if I was chosen, if I was invited to be called by this name. Someone wanted me.
I belong. I am chosen. I am wanted.
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