A New Name

"In the consummation of love, we shall know him and be known. There we shall receive our new name, known only to our Lover, which he shall give to us on a white stone."
Revelation 2:17

It is the man's own symbol – his soul's picture. In a word – the sign which belongs to him and no one else. Who can give a man this, his own name? God alone. For no one but God sees what the man is… It is only when the man has become his name that God gives him the stone with his name upon it, for then first can he understand what his name signifies… Such a name cannot be given until the man is his name… that being whom He had in His though when He began to make the child, and who He kept in His thought through the long process of creation that went to realize the idea. To tell the name is to seal the success – to say "In thee also I am well pleased."
George MacDonald

Lord I long to hear those words. To know that I have done something that has pleased you. Lord I long to hear you say my name. The name I was always meant to be called…