Dave Edlers Ramblings

I went to another “chick flick” this week. “Young Victoria” was name of the flick and it was about Queen Victoria and her early years. I have to admit I really liked it and do recommend it. I was one of two men in the place and complained to the other guy on the way out that my wife had already asked me to start calling her Queen Susie. There is a great scene in the movie where she is newly married to Prince Albert and they are having their first big fight. She is putting him in his place and he is having nothing of it and starts to leave the room. As she tries to stop him she declares that she is the queen and he has to do what she says. Invoking her name. He just walks out and she follows screaming “Albert”! Invoking her name got her no where.
As God is leading Israel out of Egypt and preparing them for the promised land he sets everything for worship in place. As he’s closing down this section of Numbers God instructs Moses to “Speak to Aaron and to his sons saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make his face shine on you, and be gracious to you; The Lord lift up his countenance on you, and give you peace.’
Then God concludes to Moses, “So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I ‘then’ will bless them.”
“Invoke My Name”. One of the early truths that I was taught as I embraced this new found faith in Christ was to always ‘pray in the name of Jesus’. Invoke that name. That if we pray or declare the name of Jesus over ourselves, our things, our lives, we will be blessed. Simple but powerful principle that God taught his people as he set them apart. It will get you somewhere!