As an admitted (and hopefully recovering) people pleaser, I want people to like me. I want people to remember me and to say good things about me. But that’s not what’s most important to me anymore.

I truly hope that people who see me and meet me will want to meet the God I’ve known for a long, long time. The God who has always known my name and who I am, even when I’d forgotten. The God who called me by that name before I knew His name.

Besides, all those who forget my name but who are captivated by my God will have an eternity to know my name. But way above that, they will have that same eternity to know and love all the names of the God who has made Himself known to us since the very beginning.