You Can Forget My Name

Colossians 2:9-10 says "9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority."

Knowing someone and knowing their name are two completely different things. I stress on knowing people. Names are simply a way to identify someone, but you actually know someones personalty you will find that they identify with something other than their name.

I for one have a very common name, Hannah. I get thrown into the sea of all the Hannahs in the world.

At Ouachita Baptist University, where i attend college, Hannah is the most common name on campus. Because of this I tell people to guess my name. Their answers are usually Sarah, Haley, or the out of no where one Bethany. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against these names, or the people with them, but my name is Hannah. When I tell them my name the most common reaction I get is "Oh not another one," closely followed by, "You don't look like a Hannah!" They act shocked that my mom named me Hannah. What does a Hannah even look like?

So that's my little rant about my name. What I really want to express is the importance or lack of importance of someones name. In band I usually can tell you if I know a person or not by what instrument they play. That's how I identify them. In classes I identify people by where they sit. I try my best to remember names but more often than not I'll know where I know you from before I know your name. This observation leads me to wonder how do people identify me and how do I want to be Identified? The answer to the second question is simple; I want to be identified with Christ. I want people to be able to outwardly see that I have a relationship with Christ and without Him I no reason to be identified period. 1 John 3:1 says, "1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him."

So my prayer for me and for you is that our identities would be found in Christ. Know that it doesn't matter who knows you name as long as they know who you belong to.