Your name is Jesus.

 Your Name Is Jesus

Your name is Jesus—the name the angel spoke

Before the world awoke to Mary’s“yes,”

The Word made flesh to dwell in our distress,

The only name in which our hopelessness is broke.

Jesus.

The sweetness of it calms the storm and stills the soul,

The power of it makes the broken sinner whole.

A name like no other,whispered at the start,

And shouted from the depths of every rescued heart.

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21)

Your name is power. At its sound, the demons flee,

The fevered brow is cooled,the blind begin to see.

It is the key that turns the lock on death’s own door,

The name above all names,whom heaven and earth adore.

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow... (Philippians 2:9-10)

Your name is promise. Yahweh saves, the covenant kept.

The well of living water,from which all grace is swept.

The answer to the ache in every age and cry,

The bridge that spans the chasm between the Holy and the high.

Salvation is its meaning; Salvation is its call.

The hope of Adam’s offspring,the Savior for us all.

No other name is given beneath the boundless sky

By which we must be saved,or truly live, or die.

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)

So let my life be an echo of this name so sweet and strong.

Let every act of love confess where I belong.

In trial or in triumph,in joy or in the test,

Your name,O Jesus, is my hiding place and rest.

Jesus.

My prayer.My song. My shield. My story.

My Redeemer in His glory.

The first and final word I’ll ever need to know.

Your name is Jesus.

And my heart will tell you so.

Amen.