All of his young life Bazalel Katz hated his name. He had to spell it for everyone and his father refused to allow him to change it. In 1938 he fled Europe and moved to what is now Israel. When at his port of entry he gave his name to the immigration inspector who without even looking up kept on writing. “Can you imagine that?” Bazalel said. “He just wrote my name. I knew I was home.”
There is a place where everyone knows our names. If we have accepted Jesus’ gift our names are written in His Book of Life. Note Revelation 3:5, “The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.” Can you imagine? Jesus, Himself, the Creator of all things confessing our name – vouching for us. In Revelation 20:12 it reads, “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.” Some people think it is a list of all our deeds but for those who accept God’s grace there is only one thing written by our name. “Redeemed.” There is no point in a list of the bad stuff we have done. That’s why they are blotted out. Acts 3:19. Inquiring minds don’t want to know.
“Is our name written there on the page white and fair?” Absolutely yes. We would be pretty stupid if it was any other way.
Written by Roger Bothwell on August 4, 2012
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