The Most Famous Name©

 

The Most Famous Name©

A Limerick A Day To Keep You On Your Way©

There once was the most famous Name of all.

Not like the most famous reindeer of all.

A King’s Name.

A King’s Fame.

Yeshua, that is the Name above all.

I will never forget the year I was Christmas shopping and feeling a bit lonely. I was at a mall full of people but feeling invisible. I ventured into a small but extremely packed  toy store to shop for my two young daughters. Christmas was about a week away and I just wanted to be home. I divorced when the youngest was just over a year old and after 5 years of dating someone else we were no longer together. Christmas always felt lonely even if I was married or dating.

So there I was, perusing the toy isles, trying to feel some kind of Christmas cheer. I had let Jesus into my broken heart 6 years before. There was a lot of emotional pain He was helping me work through that I wasn’t even aware of. Although I was in the store by myself I was silently talking to Jesus the whole time, very much aware of His comforting Presence.

It’s funny how childhood memories come back during holidays. They seem to fill our mind and body with different emotions.  I used to wonder what it was that I loved so much about Rudolph, that most famous reindeer of all.  I would never miss the show every year. When the song Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer began playing on the store sound my ears and heart were instantly in tune. I started to be overpowered my a flood of emotion. My heart began to feel intense sorrow and my eyes were filling up with tears.  You know the kind of tears that feel so huge they just run down your face. What is going on!?  I’m gonna lose it, right here, right now in the game aisle. I never had that intense reaction all my childhood. Not even in the years when I would watch it with my little girls. God was speaking a message to me. It was a deep cry of my own soul that changed forever the truth of Rudolph’s story.  He did go down in history, just like Yeshua.

Rudolph is the story of the outcast, the one who doesn’t fit in, the misfit. Have you ever felt that way?  I just don’t belong, even in my own family. Those emotions were flooding my soul as I tried to stay in control in that toy store. God was revealing how His Son felt not because Jesus didn’t belong to God His Father but because the world was trying to make him an outcast.  He would feel those feelings because He knew how many of us would experience that pain.  I suddenly understood. If Jesus could feel what I could,  then He understood my pain.

Christmas is our time to reflect on why Jesus came.  It is no trite thing when we say He was born to die for mankind’s sin. Jesus comes as the innocent, spotless baby but that is only the beginning. We can’t just see the baby in the manger. We must see the whole story. He is the One who came to live in the flesh as a man so He could experience every kind of pain and betrayal we feel.  He knew what it was like to be abandoned by men who said they loved him: Even at the last breath when He thought his own Father had forsaken him.

The miracle of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus must be shouted every Christmas as the reminder to the whole world. Jesus spoke so gently to my spirit that day. I am not an outcast, a misfit. I am never alone. My heart grew lighter but also heavier for every heart that feels as I did. I can never watch Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer now without remembering that special Christmas season.

HE is the Most Famous Name of All.

Deuteronomy 31:8 Living Bible

Don’t be afraid, for the Lord will go before you and will be with you; he will not fail nor forsake you.

Rejoice this Christmas Season.  He came to bring good news.

Luke 2:10-11 KJV

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

 Pray this prayer with me.

Dear God,

Thank You for sending Jesus, the One who knows everything we feel. Jesus, please reveal more of Yourself to our spirit, soul, and body this Christmas season and all the days of our lives. We are never alone and with You we always belong.

If you don’t know Jesus yet ask Him today to come live in your heart.  Tell Him you are sorry for all the things you know are sinful and all the things you still don’t know yet.  Ask Him to help you live out all your days from now on. In Jesus Name.  Amen.

Written by Paula Ann Kochanek

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