“We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are.” — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908
In his essay The New Name, George MacDonald reflects on the mystery of each man’s unrepeatable uniqueness before God:
“As the fir-tree lifts up itself with a far different need from the need of the palm-tree, so does each man stand before God, and lift up a different humanity to the common Father. And for each God has a different response. With every man he has a secret—the secret of the new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter.
From this it follows that there is a chamber also (O God, humble and accept my speech) a chamber in God himself, into which none can enter but the one, the individual, the peculiar man—out of which chamber that man has to bring revelation and strength for his brethren. This is that for which he was made—to reveal the secret things of the Father.”
Who are you? What is your true name?
What dimension of the Father do you reveal in a way no one else can—or ever will?
How is this mysterious, life-saving, and life-sustaining revelation being made known to you?
How is it meant not only to grow in depth and breadth over the decades, but also to become a kind of revelatory light—guiding you ever deeper into a life of faith, hope, and love?
It takes profound courage to become who we truly are.
Join me and brave allies Chris Rice and Ryan Ruebsahm as we take a deeper cut into the mystery and manna of our true name before God.
It’s all been prologue. The best is yet to come.
For the Kingdom,
Morgan and Cherie Snyder