Hidden Things
Sunday, June 15, 2025 Prayer - "Call to me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known." Jeremiah 33:3 The word for "call" used here in Hebrew is Strong's 7121, qara' (קָרָא), and carries the idea of reflecting on His name. In Hebrew a name (shem) is a one-word summation of the totality of a person. Qara' is first used in Gen Chapter One where we see God "called" the light day, the darkness night, the expanse heaven and the dry land earth. He brings the animals before Adam to see what he might "qara'" them. To qara' serves as a declaration of purpose or function, of identity. I find it interesting that the preceding verse here in Jeremiah also directs us back to God's role in creation. "Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it --the LORD is His name (shem)." There are two places in Exodus where God reveals His name to us. In Exodus...