Who are you? Lord? Father? Friend?

Have you ever been in a situation where you're with a friend and you run into someone you know but have forgotten their name?  It makes it very hard to introduce them to each other and usually becomes awkward.  You are giving them some nickname, "hey you" and the friend is like come on I'm standing here, am I invisible?  Then as you walk away you say oh sorry I couldn't remember their name.  Names define us, it is essentially who we are without saying anything about who we actually are, weird huh?  Nothing to me is more frustrating then forgetting a kid's name.  The point is we can't introduce our friends to someone whose name we can't remember. That introduction is not made, the relationship not built, and the next time they see each other there will be no talking.  

This links to my walk with Christ.  So often in my prayer life I find myself calling God the same things over and over again, sometimes not even meaning it just needing a way to start a prayer.  Lame huh?  I've very much limited him to Father, God, and Lord.  Which is great right?  What about all of his other names?  Who can I introduce him to my friends if I've forgotten his names? Forget them if I don't know someone's name can I really consider myself in a relationship with that person?  I would never say this is my boyfriend, Bob? Chuck? no no Jake? oh I don't know.  So join me each day checking on my blog for a new name to pray through for the day with me.  This will be great! I'm super excited. 

Day 1:  God is Jehovah.  The name of independent being- "I AM WHO I AM"- only belongs to Jehovah God.  As we consider His greatness, we fall down in fear and awe of this One who possesses all authority. 

Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?"

God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ' I AM has sent me to you.'"

God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers- the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob- has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.

 Exodus 3:13-15