Numbers 6:27 And they shall put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them. Your old name is an ugly one. I suppose you know what your name is? If you have forgotten, let me remind you that your name is entered in God's Book as "sinner." I do not think you will be sorry to exchange that bad name for a better. I knew a lady once who had a very ugly name, and she could not bear to be called by it. She got all her friends to promise never to use it, and she always signed herself by a pretty name which she selected for herself out of many others. But of course, that never altered the fact that her real name was the old and ugly one. Just so, you may not like the name "sinner," and you may call yourself by anything else, and persuade everybody that it does not belong to you, but that never alters the fact that you are a "sinner." God gave you the name, and God alone can change it. But oh! if you long for a "new name," tell Him so. He has one ready for you, and such a splendid, beautiful, adorable name! "I will write on him My new name." (Eva Poole.) Parallel Verses KJV: And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.WEB: "So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them." |
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