Does He ever say my name?

We all strive for significance. Some seek significance through fame or position and others achieve significance as a professional athlete or by becoming rich. But the position you achieve in each and every one of these ways is fleeting at best. There are countless washed up actors, singers and athletes that at one time or another were on top of the world. Some one recently sent me a list of famous entrepreneurs, some were steel and coal magnets and financial managers like Charles Schwab, many on the list were highly recognizable names… it listed the achievements that had brought them a tremendous amount of significance. But each and every one of them died a penniless has-been.

Proverbs 23:5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

There is only one person that we should try to impress… but He is not a person and He does not live here… and nothing we will ever do will really impress Him. But it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. This brings me to my original thought. Does He or did He ever say my name? It seems like an absurd thought, but when I was taking communion tonight it kind of floated through my mind… what if Jesus thought of me specifically… ‘Jim Fuller’, while He was dying on the cross. What if something I would do or have done in my life would have caused Him to smile as He died, to have given Him some form of comfort in thinking… as much as I do this for the world… I do it for Jim Fuller. Or maybe now while He reigns in heaven, He is having a discussion with one of His angels and He says to him; “did you see my servant Jim Fuller”!

I am a realist and I don’t really think that I am significant in any way like I am describing… but wouldn’t it be nice if we could be… but, can we? Even if it is in some small way! Can we do something so extraordinary… so significant that Jesus will rise from His throne to watch us.
The bible describes Jesus as seated at the right hand of God. But after Stephen made his speech to the Sanhedrin and they were preparing to stone him, Stephen said;

Acts 7:55-56 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. "Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

Jesus actually stood up to receive Stephen. I can just see Jesus rising from His throne, and with angels all around Him saying to those present; “look at my servant Stephen as he comes to us”… but what about you and me? Can we ever hear; “look at my servant (insert your name)”. Can we ever do something so significant, so wonderful, that we garner God Almighty’s attention?

Do you ever think about this?

Do you try?

Do you even care?

It is the only significance that matters. To have Jesus peer down from heaven to look upon you and be proud of you. To have God almighty speak your name as He did Jobs. To matter to Him, in an up close and personal way. To have your name, be on His lips and His mind.

Job 1:8 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."

Do you ever try and do anything to please God in such a way? When it is all said and done, the only thing that will matter… the only thing that will remain, are the moments you lived for Him in this way.

I pray that before I meet Him that I too can accomplish something that pleases God in such a way as this… to hear Him say as I come home; “well done thou good and faithful servant”!