Okay so I’ve been thinking on the names of God I posted yesterday. Steven and I were talking about it and he reminded me of something I learned years ago. It may be old news to you, but I had forgotten to be reading like this so I didn’t think it was a bad idea to post it.
Have you ever noticed that in Scripture the word “Lord” is written two different ways? You will find it like this “LORD”- all caps- and “Lord”- lower case letters-. Go ahead- check it out!
The first one is the proper name of God- it is the English word for Yaweh. The second one is actually the noun for Master or teacher.
So it’s like this- as Stephanie L. Smithson is to me, LORD is to God. It’s His name above all names. In other words it’s the name on His “birth certificate” (that is if He had one and hadn’t existed forever with no beginning or end=).
The second one is as girl is to me, Lord is to God. It’s what He is. He is the master and teacher but it’s not his personal name.
The excerpt below is the first three verses of Psalm 100 – try reading it knowing that it is God’s personal name that is used. See if it makes a difference to you.
1 Make a joyful shout to the LORD (yawheh) , all you lands!
2 Serve the LORD (yahweh) with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
3 Know that the LORD (Yawheh –not mu hammed, Buddha, Joseph Smith ect.), He is God;
I LOVE that– I’m on a first name basis with Yaweh in every passage that “LORD” is used. Very humbling! What a great reason to lift my hands in worship!
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Dear stephanie
Nice writing dear. I agree with your point of view. Lord means God or like that.
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Joyce said
Dear Stephanie,
The Holy Spirit enveloped us with His power/humilty yesterday. Personally I needed to feel His power and love. I wiped tears and snot for fifteen minutes after the choir’s “Holy.” My goodness what a feeling again!s There are so many people who are fearful that we (the church) is getting too emotional. I can’t imagine how yesterday, with all the pouring out of the Holy Spirit can be damaging to our church. We need our emotions. God gave us our emotion. We need to show Him that He is getting to our heart of hearts. That was what I call worshiping. I suspect having a pastor who will raise his hands and standd during worship is helping. Don’t you?
I love your blog. I will be cking it as often as possible and you know me, I will probably leave a word or two. Thank you so much for the comments, no, the lesson, on names of God. Wow! I love the way you compared them to our names and roles. Very good.
May God bless you and your wonderful family this week. Eli and Monica are precious originals and I am so pleased to see you are training them well, but not trying to smother them away from people. I am asking God to help me be bolder. Your children are “people lovers” keep up the good work.
Can you share with me how your mother is? I have prayed for her from time to time.
Always loving
Joyce