21 Names of God: 21, JESUS

02/21/21 • 16 min

A Girl in the Middle | Titus 2 mentor encouraging women to love God and to love, well, their home and family.

Jesus!Name above all names
HIGHER LEARNING

We live in part of the world that totes great acclimates of higher learning. Contrary to popular belief, this is a secular, not biblical, worldview. (Sidenote: education does not equate to learning.) Having a degree, or multiple degrees, doesn’t give us an advantage when living for, or dying without, God.

WEALTH AND REPUTATION

Working hard or falling into a rich heritage or legacy also does us no good moving us up toward God. There is no pecking order of socioeconomic sorts paving our way to heaven. Having great resources, an impeccable reputation of clout, or great wealth doesn’t change our status in God’s eyes.

PHYSICAL STRENGTH

Though you may build your life building up your body like the ninja warriors and the world’s strongest men contestants do, the strongest of us flail in weakness and fail in comparison to the purity of Jesus. Every time.

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This ist he word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 4:6

Strength of body or mind, might of wealth, education, or even a stellar reputation (as rare as it is) and any other power on earth simply doesn’t change a thing. Each of us need the Holy Spirit; there is no special pathway otherwise from earth to heaven.

Jesus!Name above all names
HIGHER LEARNING

WEALTH AND REPUTATION

PHYSICAL STRENGTH

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This ist he word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 4:6

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21 Names of God: 17, El Olam

El OlamBut have you ever really considered the idea, lasting forever, to its fullest meaning? Like, forever? This thought has baffled my mind since I was young. I often sit and think about being with Jesus in the realm of eternity. No end? That’s forever, but I still don’t quite get it and never will until I’m living it. By then, I figure it will no longer be perplexing my finite mind. Praise the Lord.

There’s another side of forever, and it’s forever past. Oh, don’t start me with those movies that go back in time and pretend it’s all happening in the present; I can’t wrap my head around those, either. Something about my very logical and visual way of thinking, I’m sure. Ironically, back to the topic at hand: forever past.

FOREVER PAST

While I admit to thinking about forever, it’s usually by way of the future, of my eternal life. I do know, and have thought in passing, of God’s ever presence-of Him having always been there. Forever past is a different thought, and El Olam is exactly that: Everlasting God, from forever past.

EL OLAM

Eternal God, from everlasting to everlasting.

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