Friday, March 22, 2013

Name Above All Names

This year I am enrolled in Advanced Humanities and Composition, and only until recently have I recognized the delicacy of literature and language. My teacher once told us that out of all the literature ever written in the world, roughly only 2% is translated in English. It's increasingly fascinating to discover the beauty of language; I am barely beginning to understand.
This week while I was at the public library, I had just gotten out of an exhausting morning swim practice and had no money to spend and no where to be until the late afternoon. To say the least, at the time nothing withing me wanted to be at the library...and certainly the look on my face proved it. I decided to study spoken poetry on the computer, and while struggling to log onto my account, someone passed by and left me a quarter size sheet of scratch paper with the the words:
"The Messiah name is Yahsua he wants you to know everything will be O.K."
At the moment I didn't understand.  Perhaps it was my expression or perhaps it was my attitude, but nevertheless I was grateful. In that moment I paused and recognized that any fear I have is cast out in God's perfect love.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love. Though at the moment I wasn't necessarily afraid of anything, it is completely a gracious reminder. Yashua, though. I wasn't familiar using that as the name of the Messiah. On gotquestions.org I studied into the name and came across an article that focused on the correlation between Hebrew and English translations. I am still fairly new to understanding it, but what I found is Yeshua (Yahshua) is the name for the Lord in Hebrew and the Greek transliteration of the name Yeshua is Iesous. The English spelling is then translated to Jesus. Though the language and spelling of the name changes, the nature remains the same. "In any language His name means 'The Lord is Salvation'."
Acts 2:21, Joel 2:32 "And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

The splendor of a king
Clothed in majesty
Let all the earth rejoice, all the earth rejoice
Terangnya bersinar
Keglapan t'lah sirna
Sujudlah pada-Nya, sujudlah pada-Nya
Наш Бог так велик
Пой со мной
Наш Бог так велик
Пусть видят все
Наш Бог, наш Бог так велик
Age to age He stands
And time is in His hands
Beginning and the end
Beginning and the end
Los tres en uno son

La santa trinidad

Cordero y el león

Cordero y el león

Cuan grande es Dios

Y todos lo verán

Cuan grande es Dios
Name above all names
Worthy of our praise
My heart will sing
How great is our God
我神真伟大歌颂你圣名真伟大

全地都看见我神真伟大
(How Great is Our God [World Edition] by Chris Tomlin)

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