Words are powerful, the Bible says the power of life and death is in our tongue. We speak about the power of words a lot, as we should, but there is another subject we need to address today. It is the trust we place in names. Names, names and more names that invite us to trust them, support them, believe them, names are vying for our attention all day everyday. Oh the names that we have put our trust in.

The names Apple or Tesla; Trump or Harris; Bank of America or Truist; Wall Street or Bourbon Street; family names or familiar names; names want us to put our trust in them for when we do we buy into their narrative. But the Bible says there is a name above all names and at that name every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord. Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Yeshua Hamasheach, the Messiah, the Savior of the world, this is the name of the Lord that is a strong tower and the righteous are invited to run into it and then they will be safe.

I was thinking about this Election Day in the USA and I was praying Psalm 65 which says, “O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.” There is going to be a lot of prayer going up today all around the world. There are going to be a lot of names vying for our attention, for us to trust them that what they say they will do. But today we are being reminded by Psalm 20 “Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright.”

Today we vote, today we watch, today we listen, but today like everyday we remind ourselves that there is only one Savior of the world; One God of all creation; One name that is above all other names; and One mediator between God and man, Jesus the Christ. Trust God my friends, pray, vote, watch, listen, but do not deviate from the only name you can trust in both storms and stillness.