August 4

Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You. — Ps 9:10 BSB

There is a knowledge of God’s name. The “name of God” refers to all the attributes and perfections He has revealed about Himself in Scripture. Everything God has said about Himself, every divine quality, is contained in His name.

But above all, the name of God refers to His Son, “the brightness of His glory and the exact representation of His being.” As He told Moses, “Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared. Be careful to obey him; don’t rebel against him, for he won’t pardon your transgression—for my name is in him.” In Christ dwell all God’s revealed perfections, His glorious character, and all His divine attributes, for “in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”

There is a knowing of God’s name—an experiential understanding of God’s perfections revealed in Scripture. His name becomes known when these perfections are revealed to the heart and conscience by the power of the Spirit, through living faith. By faith, we see God and know God. When we receive the truth as it is in Jesus, and believe by faith what God has revealed about Himself, we know His name. Every experience of His mercy, every sign of His favor, and every glimpse of His perfections is a revelation in our hearts, an increase in our knowledge of God’s name.