USING THE LORD’S NAME, BUT NOT IN VAIN
I read this book via an Amazon KINDLE Unlimited download.
If there’s one thing that we get taught as children, it is that we are not to take the Lord’s name in vain. A concept that is so important that it is mentioned twice in the Bible. It gets mentioned in both DEUTERONOMY 5:11 and EXODUS 20:7 where it had gotten taken from the third commandment which the Lord had given to Moses on Mount Sinai.
“‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.” [NKJV]
Perhaps that is why, sometimes, when I write His name out, I follow the Jewish tradition of doing it as G-d.
The Lord plays such an intrigue part of our daily lives; there isn’t a day that gets by without us using it. We do it so often, far too often that we do wind up using it in vain.
The two things that I loved most about this book by Marja Verschoor-Meijers is first that there are 16 Chapters in the book. Why 16? The number 16 is usually representative of love and loving. It is G-d’s love that those who are Christians achieve completion in, not only by being ardent in following the Ten Commandments but more importantly, by adhering to the intention of the Lord’s judgments and laws as stated in MATTHEW 22:37-40 [NKJV].
[37] Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
[38] This is the first and great commandment.
[39] And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
[40] On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.
The second thing that I love about this book is that while it doesn’t get presented as being devotional, it is. Ms. Verschoor-Meijers begins each chapter by giving her readers a verse of scripture, followed by a marvelous interlacing of biblical references to this verse and her personal experiences growing up. The author culminates at the end of each chapter by giving her readers two items to meditate on and then journalize their thoughts.
All in all, the end effect that gets achieved is that readers no longer should be focusing their attention on where it is at present and instead focus their attention on what G-d wants us to do in His divine name and thereby transforming who we are from the inside out.
For wanting to transform her readers by educating them to the real meaning/use of the Lord’s name, I’ve given Ms. Verschoor-Meijers 5 STARS for her efforts here.
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