September 9, 2013

Called by Name

A few weeks ago a wise, older lady I work with said something in passing I haven’t been able to shake. She was reading a passage of Scripture aloud, and came to one of those sections that list a bunch of impossible-to-pronounce names. But she didn’t skip over it, as I would’ve done. She read every name, then said this: “Isn’t it beautiful? We get their names. It’s not just a group of people. Yahweh knows their names.”