THE SWEETEST NAME……….JESUS!

There is so much going on around all of us.  Sometimes it feels like the sky is falling in around us, and we are buried in our sorrows.  But above all the struggles of our lives, above all the pain and sorrow, rises one precious Name, the Name of Jesus.  He sees each tear that falls, and reaches out to calm our fears and brings music to our hearts, and makes our days full of joy, even on dark and stormy days.  The writer of this hymn is unknown, but just feel that person’s heart as he or she wrote, feel His wonderful presence and His love, and let all that is going around you fade in the background as you read these wonderful words:

“The name of Jesus is so sweet, I love its music to repeat; it makes my joys full and complete,
the precious name of Jesus.

CHORUS:  Jesus! Oh, how sweet the name, Jesus! Every day the same; Jesus! Let all saints proclaim

Its worthy praise forever.

I love the name of Him whose heart knows all my griefs and bears a part; who bids all anxious fears depart, I love the name of Jesus.

That name I fondly love to hear, it never fails my heart to cheer, its music dries the falling tear;

exalt the name of Jesus.

No word of man can ever tell how sweet the name I love so well, oh, let its praises ever swell, oh

Praise the name of Jesus.”

There is no name on earth as the Name of Jesus. He brings such peace to troubled and discouraged hearts.  He brings such comfort to those in pain, those who are in distress.  In walking in the rooms in the nursing home, I have touched a forehead of someone in pain, and felt His presence.  I have touched a forehead and repeated the name of Jesus, and that person, with eyes closed, as breathed a sigh of relief, as she was touched in the name of Jesus, even just a whisper of His name will calm a troubled soul.  And there have been times when I have walked out of that room filled with joy, knowing that my Gentle Shepherd of the Sheep has touched a life.

And oh, the music that fills a joyful heart!  I remember walking into a room and there was a lovely elderly lady sitting by her bed, big smile on her face, and has she looked up at me, she broke out in song: “There’s within my heart a melody, Jesus whispers sweet and low, fear not I am with you, peace be still, in all of life’s ebb and flow…………..”  And we sang that beautiful old hymn together, all the verses that we could remember.  That is joy full and complete.  I literally floated out of that room!

And when the tears continue to come, He knows all about my grief, He bore all our griefs and our sorrow on the cross.  Isaiah 53:3 says that He was a “man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” He came to earth as a man, to walk among us and to feel our pain.  As He walked among the crowds healing the sick, He had great compassion on them. And as we think about His lovely name, just the mention of that Name “Jesus,” all fear and anxious thoughts have to go, Praise the Lord!

When we consider the wonderful Name of Jesus, we are reminded of all that is contained in that Name.  “And His Name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”  Isaiah 9:6b.

Yes, He is Wonderful! There is no one in all of the universe as Wonderful as Jesus our Lord.  How do you describe such a Wonderful Lord?  How you describe One who dries our falling tears?  And He invites us to lift our hands and our hearts and exalt that Wonderful Name, the Name of Jesus!  And in the Name of Jesus is our Counselor, our Everlasting Father and He is our Prince of Peace!

No, words cannot describe how sweet He is!  No words can describe the Wonderful love He brings to His children.  No words can describe how Awesome He is!  And just thinking about His Wonderful Name brings tears, tears of joy, tears I cannot describe, they just come at the mention of His Name.  And Oh, how I long to love Him more.  And someday………..we will see Him face to face, and His joy in us will be complete for all eternity.  I try to imagine what it will be like on that day, when all creation will bow at His feet, and all of His beloved saints will exalt His Name forever, and can you imagine how our praises will swell and fill the universe? 

“Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2:9-11.

So my beloved friends, no matter what the trials of today, whatever the tears, He calls us to exalt His Name, give Him praise.  Let your praise to Him fill you with joy, with peace, with expectation of His Glorious Appearing someday.  Someday we will see Him face to face! 

But are you ready, my friend?  Is the Name of Jesus sweet to your ears?  Does the Name of Jesus bring you great joy?  If not, today is the day of salvation, call on the Name of Jesus, and He will fill your heart and your life with His Holy Spirit, and prepare your heart to serve Him and love Him and then spend eternity with Him.  Oh, what joy the Name of Jesus brings, the sweet Name of Jesus!

In His Precious Name,

Pastor Sharon