Our Glorious King

When did we lose respect for the name of a Holy God? I have recently heard a popular reference to Jesus: a "bamfo". This means bad ass mother fucker! Shocking to see that? I hope that the idea of someone calling our Father a degrading name like this, even if it is an acronym, would cause us to realize that the idea of who Christ is in our culture is heading toward a heretical thought pattern. To our New Age and Emergent churches, and even some Evangelical believers, Jesus is just their pot-head best friend and "bad ass" means that He is cool with all the sin they have in their lives. They can make Him who they want Him to be but never allow Him to mold them into who He has called them to be as Christians. We need to stop living for ourselves and start living for a perfect and Holy Father. And if we are going to call Jesus some other name, why not start by using the names found in scripture and compare them to what we are calling Him. Here are a few examples: Elohim (God of gods) Deut. 10:17, El Elyon (the Most High) Gen. 14:20, El Shaddai (the all sufficient one) Philip. 1:20, and Jehovah-mekoddishkem (the Lord sanctifies you) Heb. 10:10-14. Next time you go to use a name for God, no matter what it is, make sure it is glorifying to Him and His name. As believers we must learn to respect and fear our Lord and until we do this we will never be in true worship of our God and Savior.