My Name Is in the Bible

 

 

My name is in the Bible

I guess you didn’t know,

And just in case you want the proof,

The proof to you I’ll show.

 

I guess you’d probably think

It’s Michael or Gabriel

Or since I could never be an angel,

It must be Peter or Lemuel.

 

It couldn’t be Esau or Jacob

No such names these days,

No James and John and David

We’re into the African ways.

 

No more European trappings

And colonial underpinnings,

That may have been useful in its time

Now all of that we'er trimming.

 

“Where in the Bible?” You ask

And I will show you soon

But when I really think of it

I can jump over the moon.

 

If to you I seem excited,

It is because I genuinely am

To think that my name was included

In God’s redemptive plan.

 

My name is not only unique

But it is a common name as well,

“How can that be?” I hear you ask,

I am only to delighted to tell.

 

Go to John chapter 3 verse 16

And you’ll find it written there,

Right there in the Holy Bible

On its pages bright and fair.

 

For God so loved the world

That he gave his only begotten Son

That whosoever, yea, that’s it!

That’s where I got it from.

 

 

My name is whosoever

And you will find it in God’s Word,

In the golden text of the Bible

You can be absolutely assured.

 

Assured of divine salvation

Like all the whosoever

That call on the name of Jesus Christ

Knowing they shall be his forever.

 

For none that come to him

Will he ever cast away,

This assurance is to the whosoever

That come to him today.

 

Stewart Russell © September 3, 2020