God's Calling Card: The Names Of God

God's Calling Card
The Names of God Glory in His holy name;
Let the heart of those who seek the LORD be glad (Psalms 105:3). In the oriental world, a name meant much more than just a verbal designation or a vocal verbalizing of sounds. A name told something of the character of the person to whom it belonged. To know the name of a person was to have power over him. The names of the various pagan deities were used to call forth their power. The names of God are not man-made. We read in Genesis 2:1-25 of how God created the animals and brought them to man and how it was man who named them. But this is not the case in the names of God. They are given by God Himself. This suggests that they tell us something about Him.