Know the Meaning of your Child's Name

The coming of new baby brings so much joy to the parents. The feeling of excitement is one great experience especially for the newly-wed couple much more for the long time married couple who have been barren for years for them the long wait is over. So the next and surely the first preparation to expect for the couple to do is cook up for a nice name, Our names bear our destiny or so I believe it is. The Bible cites a lot of instances where names have been changed to suit the person’s character or maybe title of position or assigned mission and responsibility. Let’s take that of Abram which was changed to Abraham because God is grooming him to be the “ father of all nations.”. Isaac, the son of Abraham was given such a name that means “laughter” because God has made Sarah laugh since she gave birth to Isaac at the very old age. Jacob, was changed to Israel which means “grasper” because he lie, steal to get in on God’s blessing. “The Lord Jesus was given name above all name, meaning “Christ”, the Savior of Mankind, hence the name should be honored, revered and worship. Sadly to say, that some people give their sons such name after the Lord’s , that could make a bad impact or tarnish the name of Lord Jesus when they turned to be bad guy and being yelled at and despised. Do you ever know that it belongs to God commandment:

Exodus 20:7 You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

So watch out in giving name to your child The common mistakes is giving their child with long name, such that child would have a hard time writing them down especially during his early years in school. Today, children were given at least two different names the logic behind it, is to avoid duplication or simply evade being indicted with charges that belongs to somebody else with similar names. The World-English is a record of names and meaning of each that could make a good reference to those intending to find out the meaning of the name before they give it to their children.

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