BY NAME
Today's reading: Exodus 33-36

Isaiah calls me Mom.

My one year-old niece, Annie, calls me MimMim.

My older nephews and nieces call me Aunt Ninny.

Mom and Dad call me Sis.


Telemarketers call me Mrs. Edgell, or some close facsimile of it.

My closest friends, those who have met me, have come to know me and still like me--they call me Malinda. God included!

"...You call me by name..." Exodus 33:12 NLT

There's something awfully endearing about calling someone by name. It personalizes a relationship. It deepens friendships. It shows someone cares.

The Creator of the entire world calls me by name! The One who send His Son to die on the cross, knows me on a first name basis! The Lord God Almighty and I are on a first name basis!