A daily, Bible-based perspective of hope,
encouragement and exhortation.
Thursday,
November 8, 2018
Brooksyne
passed this farm view yesterday. It looks like all the
large pumpkins are now gone leaving only the
ornamental ones to pick from.
"Jesus
Knows Me This I Love"
Message
summary: Thank God today I can
declare, "Jesus Knows Me This I Love".
And so can each of you!
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" (Jeremiah 1:5). "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! (Isaiah 43:1). "The Lord knows those who are His" (2 Timothy 2:19).
However, as I read the
plaque the words were wrong, or so I
initially thought. Instead of "Jesus
Loves Me This I Know" it has "Jesus Knows
Me This I Love". But after
musing on the statement I realized it
wasn't a mistake but a creative way to
express a wonderful, reassuring truth.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" (Jeremiah 1:5).
Driving
along I-70 through Colorado last
Friday Brooksyne passed an interesting
road sign identifying a small town
called "No Name". You would think they
could come up with something better
than that!
But we all, including aborted children, have a loving heavenly Father who knows our name. He knows us and He knows our name. Note that phrase in our second daily text, "I have called you by name, you are mine".
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"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" (Jeremiah 1:5). "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! (Isaiah 43:1). "The Lord knows those who are His" (2 Timothy 2:19).
Jesus
loves me! this I know, for the Bible
tells me so;
Little ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.
We
serve as chaplains at Audrey's, a
wholesale distributor of gift and home
decor items, as many of our readers
probably remember from previous posts.
Tuesday morning during my visit, while
Brooksyne was on her way back from
Colorado, I saw a plaque that caught
my attention. It is based on the words
of "Jesus Loves Me", a song most all
of us know well and have sung since we
were children. Although it is
considered a children's song it really
conveys a message for all ages.
Our
first daily verse is a word from God
specifically to the prophet Jeremiah
but it's a truth in which we can find
great assurance.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" (Jeremiah 1:5).
"I formed you in the
womb." It was God who
formed us in our mother's womb. Of
course I am not discounting biological
reality either for Jeremiah or anyone
else but we realize Scripturally that
God has a major role in forming us
from the moment of our conception.
This is a powerful truth to consider
in light of abortion "rights".
Children who are formed by God are
terminated while still developing in
their womb.
"I
knew you." What a blessing that
God knows us! God knew us "before"
He formed us. That is incomprehensible
but based on the divine attribute of
omniscience it is entirely logical. As
David said in Psalm 139:6, "Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is too high, I cannot attain to
it."
Driving
along I-70 through Colorado last
Friday Brooksyne passed an interesting
road sign identifying a small town
called "No Name". You would think they
could come up with something better
than that!Aren't
you glad you have a name? Sometimes
parents name their children before
they are born, other times at birth.
Can you imagine the indignity of
having parents too lazy or
uninterested in giving their child a
name?
Those
of us blessed to come from families
with committed, loving parents can
hardly imagine this. Although in our
case both sets of our parents have
been with the Lord for many years, as
we reflect on our remembrances of
them, we both miss hearing their
distinct voice calling us by the name
they chose for us.
Yet
the vast majority of children murdered through
abortion are not named.
Matthew
Habiger, well-known among pro-life
advocates and activists for his work
with Human Life International, is
enthusiastic about this opportunity to
restore human dignity: "When you give
a name to an aborted child, then you
remove it from the trash heap of
oblivion, and restore a token of human
dignity to that child. When you do
this publicly, then you are helping to
reform the values of the current
culture. This is a commendable effort,
another way to soften hardened
attitudes, and to melt frozen hearts."
But we all, including aborted children, have a loving heavenly Father who knows our name. He knows us and He knows our name. Note that phrase in our second daily text, "I have called you by name, you are mine".
I
belong to God today and indeed He
knows my name! And that's true for
each one of you as well. Today, in the
midst of any frustrations,
disappointments, rejection, fears,
discouragement or doubts you may
entertain, I urge you to focus on the
One who truly knows your name, who
loves and cares for you.
Indeed
we can declare: "Jesus knows me, this
I love"
Be
encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer:
Father, how
special it is to know that I will not
appear as a stranger before You in
heaven, but You know me and will call
me to Yourself by name for You are
thoroughly acquainted with me. As a
loving father cares for his child so
You care for me, Your child bought by
the blood of Jesus. You place me
securely in the palm of Your hand so
that no enemy can snatch me from Your
protective and loving care. What a
tremendous feeling of stability and
peace this brings to my heart in a
world that is becoming more
impersonal, chaotic, and unhinged from
the firm foundations established by
Your eternal Word. Of this I am
certain; Jesus knows me and this I
love! Amen.''
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer:
Father, how
special it is to know that I will not
appear as a stranger before You in
heaven, but You know me and will call
me to Yourself by name for You are
thoroughly acquainted with me. As a
loving father cares for his child so
You care for me, Your child bought by
the blood of Jesus. You place me
securely in the palm of Your hand so
that no enemy can snatch me from Your
protective and loving care. What a
tremendous feeling of stability and
peace this brings to my heart in a
world that is becoming more
impersonal, chaotic, and unhinged from
the firm foundations established by
Your eternal Word. Of this I am
certain; Jesus knows me and this I
love! Amen.''Brooksyne's
Note: I wonder how many of you
prefer an individual to call you by,
"Hey, you!" or "Hey, buddy", etc. I like
to learn people's names so that I can
greet them by name, though admittedly,
as I age I get a lapse of memory of even
those people that I've known for years.
My heart is warmed when someone calls me
by name, especially one I've recently
met. Having a name like Brooksyne (Brook
seen') is very unusual and when I
introduce myself I usually take time to
explain its origin and give a tip, "Just
think of a scene of a brook and turn it
around to say "Brook scene". Forty-two
years ago I met a woman in Northern
Pennsylvania who told me that's how she
taught herself to remember my name, and
I've borrowed her clever idea ever
since.
I say
all that to say this: likely one who
calls us by name has taken time to get
to know us, first by remembering our
name. God, who has created all
humankind, knows us by our name and He
certainly knows who we are, not only
what we present to others but He knows
the very intent of our heart and that is
the very thing we often hide from
others. Yet God knows us by name and He
calls us His own; "I have called you
by name, you are mine."
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