Did you ever carve your name or initials on a tree or write your name on a building or on a bridge? I have seen names on trains as they travel across the country, in bathrooms, just about any place where a person can write a name. Names are important and we like to see our names and hear our names. We don’t like, “hey you”. That is why I always look for a person’s badge to see if their name is there, so I can call them by their name and then later try to recall it. In the Old Testament, the temple was not really the dwelling place of Jehovah but the place where His name was.

When Jesus sent out the apostles he told them they could do a lot of different signs to confirm the word and when they returned they were rejoicing that they had been able to do those very things. It is interesting that Jesus told them, “don’t rejoice over these things, but rejoice because your name is written in heaven” (Luke 10:20). Paul spoke of certain people whose names were written in heaven (Phil. 4:1-4).

The most important thing that you can experience is having your name written by God in the book of life. But the only way that can happen is if we are following His word, being faithful in obeying His word. He said that He will tell some people in the judgment, “I have never known you” and that is after claim they knew him (Matthew 7:21-23). Paul was very confident about the fact that the Lord knows those that are His (2 Tim 2: 19).

Where is your name written, on a tree, on a building “in lights” or in the book of life in heaven? The only way you are going to enter into heaven is if your name is there in the book of life (Rev. 21:11-15). My prayer is that “when the roll is called up yonder, we will be there.”