“HE KNOWS YOUR NAME!”

ME-MAW THOUGHTS

NUMBER 694

JULY 30, 2024///

I want to share the highlights of a true story that Max Lucado shared in the introduction to his book, “Jesus, the God who knows your name”!

It shows what I desired to share with you today!

IN A HAITIAN ORPHANAGE, there were fifty-seven children. One of them was named Carinette! Each one is precious, but Carinette stands out! Each one is dark skinned, bright-eyed, curly haired, and speak Creole and love fun! But Carinette stands out!

Her food of rice and beans, and playing on a grassless playground, sleeping beneath a tin roof and her routine is exactly like the others. Yet she is different!

But her eyes have a light in them, and she has a bounce in her step and a spark in her! Why? If you ask her, she will tell you! She will tell you about the visitors who came!

Visitors who traveled from faraway world just to see her! They were looking for a little girl just like her! They knew her name, her favorite song and they knew that she loves to look at books and jump rope!

And in the moment that changed her forever, they invited her to live with them!

THEY ARE COMING FOR ME; she will tell you!

She will show you pictures of her soon to be home. Her adoptive parents brought her pictures, a teddy bear, granola bars and cookies. She shared the goodies with her friends and asked the director to guard her teddy bear, but she kept the pictures.

The pictures remind her of the father who knows her and the home that awaits her. The pictures convince her to believe the incredible: somebody knows her name and has promised to take her home.

AS A RESULT, CARINETTE IS DIFFERENT! Her world changed the day she learned that someone far away knew her name and was coming for her.

ARE YOU WILLING TO BELIEVE THE SAME?

Are you open to the idea of a heavenly Father who knows you? Would you consider this a life-changing idea: the Almighty and all-knowing God has set His affection on you! He knows every detail about you! He knows your interest, your hang-ups, your fears and failures! HE KNOWS YOU!

1 Chronicles 28:9 says in part:

for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts:

Zechariah 2:8 says in part:

For he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.

THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE KNOWS YOUR NAME AND WANTS TO BE WITH YOU FOREVER!   ******************************

I pray that as you read this it will touch you in the way that you need touching.

Maybe you are discouraged and need to be reminded of how precious you are to the Father in heaven!

Or maybe you feel like you could never be loved by one so great, or maybe you have never given thought to the Love the Father has for you!

Wherever you are and whatever you believe, may I tell you God, who sent Jesus to be His expression of love on the earth and take the penalty of our sins, Loves you unconditionally!

I pray we can all walk in that love as we navigate this thing called life!

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Father, I come in the name of Jesus and thank you for your love! Thank you for knowing each person who reads this by name, and you know each of us better than we know ourselves! That kind of love cannot be explained, just experienced! Be very real to each of us today, deep inside! Amen!

Love, MeMaw!