"Jesus.....
The mere mention of His name can calm the storm, heal the broken, raise the dead.
At the name of Jesus, I've seen sin-hardened people melt, derelicts transformed, the lights of hope put back into the eyes of a hopeless child....
At the name of Jesus, hatred and bitterness turn to love and forgiveness. Arguments cease.
I've heard a mother softly breathe His name at the bedside of a child delirious from fever, and I've watched as that little body grew quiet, and the fevered brow became cool.
I've sat beside a dying saint, her body racked with pain, who in those final fleeting seconds summoned her last ounce of ebbing strength to whisper earth's sweetest name....'Jesus, Jesus....'
Emperors have tried to destroy it. Philosophies have tried to stamp it out. Tyrants have tried to wash it from the face of the earth with the very blood of those who claimed it.
Yet His name still stands.
And there shall be the final day when every voice that has ever uttered a sound--every voice of Adam's race--shall rise in one mighty chorus to proclaim the name of Jesus...
For in that day, "every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord..."
So, you see, it was not mere chance that caused the angel one night long ago to say to a virgin maiden, "His name shall be called JESUS...."
Jesus...Jesus....Jesus....
Kings and Kingdoms shall all pass away...but there is something about that name."
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Written by Gloria Gaither.
Phil Hoover
Chicago
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