Tag: Bible verses about laying down our past

Exodus 33:17 (NKJV) 17 So the Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

Disappointment in the choices we make, or the things others have done to us, can cause us to not like ourselves.

We can be so angry at ourselves that we don’t even like our own name. We deny the connection to try and get rid of this feeling.

The very name that God calls to Himself, we say no, that’s not me.

If God can call us by our name, then we too should be able to accept it as our identity no matter the damage done to it.

One day, as I sat in my car, tears running down my face because I was reminded of some things I had been through, it left me in a state of hating my own name. I didn’t want to associate with that name, so I hid from it within myself.

But God, as loving, kind, and gentle as He is, said to me that day in the car, “I love you and your full name.”

It hit me. I was hiding from it, hoping to find some relief from certain events or moments that took place in past years.

If we can forget our name, then it all goes away, right? Wrong. It’s just hidden.

God knows our name. It will always be our name. We can’t simply forget our own name and make the past go away. It doesn’t work that way.

But we can make things right. We can face what is making us be in such denial.

We can forgive ourself for the choices we made under that name. And we can forgive those who deliberately brought attacks upon us under that name.

But changing our name will never get rid of our past; it will not give us the peace that we so desperately desire.

God knows our name.

Our name is ours for life. Let Him repair the damage as we face it.

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