Hello my name is……
The other weekend James kept singing the song Hello My Name Is by Matthew West. It is a song that talks about those words that we let describe us. We all have to words that people have used to describe us; some of them are good and some of the them have broken us too. We sometime let them control our lives and let them make us who we are too. Sometimes Satan uses them to keep us down and it hinder us becoming the person God what us to be. Satan knows the best time to attack us. As a Christian we need to remember that those names should not bond us.
I know this is truly hard to do sometimes. When I was in second grade I was diagnosed with learning disabilities. In the generation before me, those with disabilities would be institutionalizing because it was thought they could not be taught. I was raised in a world were I was taught that I was dumb, stupid and etc. My parents were told that I would never graduate from high school. Hmm, amazing, not only do I have a high school diploma but a college degree.
These names even followed me when I was in college; my mother went to a garage sale at my sixth grade teacher’s home. When my teacher recognized my mother, she told my mother “I was the dumbest student she ever had.” There are times that Satan comes around and reminds me of those names. Usually they come at time of great loss – like my mom’s death several years ago and now my father’s death. Then there are the time when I am under great stress – which at time is part of ministry and being a pastor.
These are the times when Satan likes to whisper those words in my ears – words spoken long ago – words that haunted me for years. For some, they think Christians can’t go through these times, but just check out the Psalms. David struggled at times.
It is in those times that we need to remember the words from the end of Matthew West’s song. These are promises that come from the heart of God’s word.
Hello, my name is child of the one true King
I’ve been saved, I’ve been changed, and I have been set free
“Amazing Grace” is the song I sing
Hello, my name is child of the one true King
I am no longer defined
By all the wreckage behind
The one who makes all things new
Has proven it’s true
Just take a look at my life
What love the Father has lavished upon us
That we should be called His children
I am a child of the one true King
It is at those moments that I have to lean on God more for the strength to close my ears to Satan. I will always have my disabilities and will always have to struggle with Satan’s lies. But as a Christian I have the power of God to withstand Satan, because I am a child of the one true King.







