You’ve met them, more than a one or two. The nefarious name dropper. They don’t tell you anything about themselves; instead, they tell you about who all they know, what they did with so and so, and how their third cousin once ate with the lead guitarist of such and such rock band. Every conversation begins with “I just got off the phone with [insert name of person considered to be important here].”
This morning in our CDTS lecture at the King’s Lodge we heard from Paul Hawkins, a man who first began his YWAM journey in 1971 at Lausanne, Switzerland, which at that time was the only training base in the world. He spoke about “knowing God.” He quoted George McDonald’s book, Discovering the Character of God, in which McDonald wrote “Everything depends on the kind of God one believes in. This is the starting point in discovering Who God truly is.” Thus, what you believe about God leads to what you believe about everything else.
This led Paul to ask us “Do you use your theology to judge God or do you use Who God is to judge your theology?” Stop and think on that a moment.
As you ponder that, add on this:
Thus says the LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight, says the LORD.
Oh that we who are called by His name would glory not in the names of others we might drop, the wisdom we have accumulated, the strength of our bodies, or the riches of our fortunes; instead, let us all glory in knowing the God of the Universe, the God of love, the God Who Is. May we all become Name droppers of THE NAME that is above all names. Of course, to do this we must get to know God intimately, not just in our heads, but in our hearts and souls, our spirits. We are invited (”called”) by God to know Him. Take Him up on the invitation and begin to walk with Him. As you are overwhelmed with Who He Is, begin to invite others to do the same.
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