"Your Name-place"

"Your Name-place"

God gives you two names: yours and God’s. Listen for that place deep within where God has given you God’s own name, that name lovers reveal to one another in intimate moments, where God has told you who God is for you. Who is God for you? It’s unlike anybody else. You reflect a part of God that no one else will ever reflect. You reflect back to God a part of the mystery that no one else will understand.

Where God has given you God’s intimate name, you also have been given your own name. It takes awhile; it takes some listening, some silence, some suffering, probably. It takes some waiting, desiring; it takes some hoping. But finally we discover that place where we know who we are; we know what God said.

That place-where-the-names-are-One, God’s name and your name, that’s the place of inner authority. That’s the place where the Spirit is able to be heard and received. It’s the only place big enough and grand enough to be able to believe the daring gospel of Christ.

I hope someone has given you freedom and permission to trust your own experience, to listen, and believe your name. It speaks and evokes you and no one else.

from The Passion of God and the Passion Within