This is the Year of Grace at WJTL. Listen for daily segments on WJTL which describe the meaning and impact of God's grace on our lives. If you miss our daily features on the radio, you can find them at my webpage this year, so spread the word.
One of the daily features will be the Name of the Day, where we examine the meaning of various names given to people and their spiritual significance. Used by permission of Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group, copyright 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published in other media, or mirrored at other sites without written permission from Baker Publishing Group.
Vanessa is today’s Name.
The Inherent Meaning of Vanessa is “A Butterfly.”
The Spiritual Significance is “Free Spirit.”
If your name is Vanessa, look up Psalm 37, verse 4 for your supporting Scripture verse:
“Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
That is how Jesus can touch your life by His grace.
Today’s Portrait of Grace is salt.
When we put salt on our food, it adds flavoring to our food. Salt is also a preservative.
Jesus calls His followers, “The salt of the earth.” As we interact with the world with the influence of God’s grace and truth, we flavor this world with the influence of Christ. God also uses His people to preserve the world from moral decay.
One way we can represent Jesus in this way is with gracious words. Colossians 4:6 says, “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”
The next time we use salt on our food, we can remember God’s call for us to flavor this world with the Gospel in the Year of Grace.
Thought-provoking insight from Lamplighter Magazine:
"A time like this demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands."-Peter Marshall, 1944
Prophetic Passage of the day, 2 Timothy 4, verses 2 to 3
"Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage-with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."
