Some one or something to fear #7 Not afraid for Gods Name

Fear to use a name of a ghost, person or group

13. Not afraid for Gods Name

It is notable that a lot of priests or preachers do not dare to use God’s Name or even do not talk much about His person nor His works. In a lot of schools the religious instruction has not much to do with God but in fact concerns more general moral ethics or moral philosophy. Often there is more philosophy than studying the Word of God. Bible study is more often little sleeping baby than the popular theologians.

One does not dare to speak too much about God, because one is frightened to fail then. One thinks that people will pull out or that they (as preacher or as person) will be less popular. The own popularity is more on their mind than the popularity of their God. They are more concerned with what others might think about them. They prefer concealing God rather than to be unpopular in this world.

They have a worldly fear of failure which is still less to gloss over than the children their fear of not succeeding for a house task or test. It should not be our priority to succeed in this world or to become acknowledged and popular. We as Christians should aim to follow Christ, listen to him and accordingly honour his Father. Our aim should further be to succeed to become approved by God.

To be able to dare to come before the eyes of God we must dare to omit our fear. Though the world may look frightening we should be strengthened by the Force of our God. The world may not frighten us. We should dare to speak out the Name of our beloved Father, the Creator of us all. And we should know that to be able to be recognized and to be accepted by the God of gods, we shall have to accept His position and have to dare to speak out His Name which He loves to hear. We should have no excuses not to dare to pronounce His divine name and also to address Him with that Name that He has given to Him and us and also wants to hear.

“Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,”(Exodus 20:4-5 ASV)

“Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold,or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.” (Acts 17:29 ASV)

“Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have they, but they smell not; They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.”(Psalms 115:4-8 ASV)

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24ASV)

“I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.” (Isaiah 42:8 ASV)

“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” (John 14:13 ASV)

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Additional reading:

1. Who is the Only “True God”? (John 17:3)
2. Believing in God the rewarder
3. Only one God
4. God of gods
5. God is one
6. Attributes to God
7. Titles of God beginning with the Aleph in Hebrew
8. Is God the Father?
9. The Divine name of the Creator
10. I Will Cause Your Name To Be Remembered
11. Lord or Yahuwah, Yeshua or Yahushua
12. God about His name “יהוה“
13. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה
14. Hashem השם, Hebrew for “the Name”
15. יהוה , YHWH and Love: Four-letter words
16. Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #2 Calling upon the Name of God
17. Jehovah Yahweh Gods Name
18. God Helper and Deliverer
19. God my fence, my hope for the future
20. The Divine name of the Creator
21. Some one or something to fear #7 Not afraid for Gods Name
22. Jehovah Yahweh Gods Name
23. Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #2 Calling upon the Name of God
24. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #5 Prayer #1 Listening Sovereign Maker
25. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #5 Prayer #2 Witnessing
26. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #5 Prayer #3 Callers upon God
27. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #8 Prayer #6 Communication and manifestation
28. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #10 Prayer #8 Condition
29. Listening and Praying to the Father
30. Praise the most High Jehovah God above all
31. Praise the God with His Name
32. For Jehovah is greatly to be praised
33. The Bible and names in it
34. Jehovah in the BASF
35. Lord or Yahuwah, Yeshua or Yahushua
36. Jesus and his God
37. A philosophical error which rejects the body as part of the human person
38. Manifests for believers #2 Changing celibacy requirement
39. Uncertainty, shame and no time for vacillation
40. Who are the honest ones?
41. Fragments from the Book of Job #5: chapters 32-37
42. At first looking like a loss
43. God’s measure not our measure
44. God loving people justified

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Also of interest:

1. Draw Close To God
2. ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’ – What Name?
3. Has anyone else noticed the profound disrespect

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