--Naming Rights~
-Psalm 147:1-5

"He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name." (Psalm 147:4)

"He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out." (John 10:3)

~~I had hoped from the very beginning of the adoption process that my husband and I might be able to name the children who would become ours. I thought naming a child would make that little one feel more like "mine." But that privilege was to be for the birthparents. By God's providence, both mothers in different years had planned to choose names that turned out to be (or be close to) our last name. When they learned of our last name and that naming a child "Dane Daane" would never do, they laughed and invited us to join them in choosing different names.

Naming the babies was sweet, but by that time I had settled in my heart that God in His sovereignty had names chosen for those babies even before they were born. If I am really a believer in Jesus Christ, He has given me a new name too (Revelation 2:17).

My greater longing would be not to make sure my adopted children "feel like mine," and carry my name, but to seek with all my heart to follow after Christ so that together we would live for His name.
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Jesus, the One who knows us, will give us a new name in glory, and we will know it. Our adoption by Him will be finalized!
--Haven Today