You are my friend…

You might ask, “What’s in a name?”. “And the Lord replied to Moses…you are my friend.” Exodus 33:17One way to know that you have been excepted into a group, is when someone remembers your name. That shows that you were memorable, or maybe they leaned to the person next to them and asked them your name, but nevertheless when someone knows your name you feel good. You feel like a friend.

God told Moses, “…You are my friend.”  Which in the the original translation literally meant “He knows you by name”.  Think about that.  God knows all of our names, one by one.  Again I knew this already, but if you stop and think about it, you realize that the God of the universe cares enough about us to call us his friend.