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b'Do you know what your name means? Across cultures, names have meanings, and when we give names to babies, those meanings can be a beautiful way to communicate love and care for the newest members of our families..Proverbs 22:1 says, \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153A good name is more desirable than great riches.\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d But here\\u2019s the thing: we don\\u2019t choose our own names. We receive them when we\\u2019re born into our families..Similarly, there is another name we can receive, separate from the one given to us at birth. When we trust Jesus as our Savior, we become part of His family and receive His name: we are called/\\u201dChristian,\\u201d which means \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153little Christ.\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d This name means that He has made us new people and we belong to Him. God has poured out His great love on us through Jesus\\u2019s death on the cross and His resurrection from the dead. Now, He invites us to imitate Him as dearly loved children imitate their parents, by loving others as He loves us (Ephesians 5:1-2)..Sometimes, when God called people to follow Him in the Bible, He literally renamed them. Abram became Abraham, Sarai became Sarah, Jacob became Israel, and Simon became Peter (Genesis 17:5, 15-16; 32:28; John 1:42). Their new names were a sign to others that God had made them new people and they were now part of His family..Today, God does the same with us as Christians. When we put our trust in Jesus, He makes us new and adopts us into His family (John 1:12; Colossians 1:13-14). As we rest in His great love, He is shaping all of us to become more and more like Him so we can point others toward His good name./\\u2022 A. W. Smith.\\u2022 Do you know what your name means or why your family chose it for you? Do you like your name? .\\u2022 The name/Christian/means that you belong to Jesus\\u2019s family. As Christians, how can this truth comfort us when we feel unloved or rejected? .\\u2022 To learn more about what it means to have a new name in Jesus\\u2014to become God\\u2019s child\\u2014check out our \\u201cKnow Jesus\\u201d page..See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of/God! 1 John 3:1a (NIV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\n1John.3.1|Isa.56.5|Acts.11.26|1Pet.4.16'