Calling on Yahweh we are using the Father's personal name,

Wenesday, 3/21/12

In the Gospel Jesus said, "The Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing.” Those words should warn us against being such Jesus freaks that we forget that as a man Jesus is below the Father.

We should absorb the reverence for the Father that we see in the first reading. Isaiah said, the Lord would never forsake us. The lord says, “Even though a mother forsake her child, I will never abandon you.”

Anytime our English version of the Old Testament speaks of the Lord the actual Hebrew word is Yahweh.

Yahweh was the Father’s personal name for himself, and when Isaiah and the other prophets spoke the name Yahweh they uttered it with deep love. We should use the Father’s personal name for himself in singing this hymn, and we should utter his name with real love.

Yahweh, I know you are near,
standing always at my side.
You guard me from the foe,
and you lead me in ways everlasting.

Lord, you have searched my heart,
and you know when I sit and when I stand.
Your hand is upon me protecting me from death,
keeping me from harm.

Where can I run from Your love?
If I climb to the heavens You are there;
If I fly to the sunrise or sail beyond the sea,
still I'd find You there.

Yahweh, I know you are near,
standing always at my side.
You guard me from the foe,
and you lead me in ways everlasting.