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The passage will be referenced with the hopes that people will pray in the Lectio tradition and then post in the "comment" section the insights that they have encountered. Thanks!
Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture passages are taken from the NAB.
I guess the first thing that I should say is that the only thing I could find about a “gittith” is that it is a stringed instrument.
ReplyDeleteThe next thing to say is that I prefer the New International Version or the New American Standard Version which declares, “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” I guess it’s because of the Sandi Patty song.
At any rate, what I should say is that I took the “O Lord, our Lord” and substituted in “Lord Jesus Christ.” To me, it just made it so much more personal. It also added much to my Lectio. Indeed! How majestic is the name of my Lord Jesus Christ! In only takes two gathered in THAT name and He is there (Matthew 18:20, “For where two or more are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”)!
How powerful a name! “And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.” John 14:13-14. “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.” John 15:16. “On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.” John 16:23-24.
How exalted a name! “Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:5-11.
How incredible a name! “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Romans 10:13.
How awesome a name! “They brought them into their presence and questioned them, ‘By what power or by what name have you done this?’ Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, answered them, ‘Leaders of the people and elders: If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved, then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. He is ‘the stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.’ There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.’”
My Lord Jesus Christ, how majestic is your name in all of the earth!