Whose Name Are You Dropping?

Good morning, oh my coffee tastes so good, how about your coffee/tea this morning? I awoke to a low covering of fog making it look so cool out. So I zipped out the door to see if I could enjoy my coffee on the back deck as the sun came over the horizon, and YIKES talk about humidity! NO THANK YOU!

My husband spent some time this week out on a job site in the sun and heat of the Kansas prairies, doing things that he totally enjoys. My Man, simply loves helping others and being involved. When he came home that evening he said something that I, myself, had been pondering over for some time, and continue to find myself doing so. He was concerned about a person whose conversation is littered with name dropping. So I ask, whose name or names are we dropping in our conversations?

This got me to thinking about ourselves, are Bill and I like that? I honestly pray not, but perhaps? Why do we do this? To elevate ourselves so that others think we are important, that we know so and so? That we are rubbing elbows with the elite? Look at who I am for having been in their presence? God tells us to not do this in 1 Corinthians 3:21 "So then, no more boasting about men!"

Yes. Honestly, I think the answer is yes to each of these question that I have asked. What do you think? May you and I take a few moments to see what God's word has to say about boasting. Can't boasting be about name dropping?

"Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast." 2 Corinthians 11:18

I believe that Paul was encouraging those at Corinth to boast not like the world, but to boast in the things of God. That is what I want to challenge each one of us to do, perhaps starting with TODAY. To let go of the worlds ways and speak the name(s) of GOD! Season our conversations with who God is to you and what God does for you and those around you.

Why? Because we are to elevate the NAME OF JESUS. To reveal to the world just how IMPORTANT He is to us. That we KNOW Him, in a deep personal way, which is called RELATIONSHIP. Yes, that we are rubbing elbows with OUR SAVIOR and HE ALONE IS ELITE. That we are spending time in HIS presence!

How cool is that? Doesn't that just place a smile clear across your face??!!! Put some joy way down deep into your heart?!!

Psalm 34:2 "My soul will boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice."

Psalm 44:8 "In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever. Selah"

Jeremiah 9:24 "but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD."

1 Corinthians 1:31 "Therefore, as it is written: 'Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.' " See 2 Corinthians 10:17 also.

2 Corinthians 2:12 "Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace."

Galatians 6:14 "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."

Perhaps you will remember some time ago that I shared with you that I so believe God loves to hear us bragging on Him. I believe, when we are dropping HIS NAME, we are, ARE, bragging on Him! May you find JOY today, in boasting in just who and what GOD is to you!

Drop His Name Girlfriends BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM MORE THAN LIFE!