You Know My Name
Bible Reading: John 10:1-5
Author: James R.Hayes (Tennessee, USA)
Author: James R.Hayes (Tennessee, USA)
Tuesday 28 April 2026 © The Upper Room.
I was at the nursing home visiting my mother and an elderly man stopped to talk to me.
He told me that he was one of nine children and that in the last years of his father’s life, his father had become blind.
‘You know,’ said the man, ‘even though he was blind, he knew each of us children by our voices.’
Blindness was not an obstacle to knowing and loving his children.
In the same way, Jesus told us, ‘I know my own and my own know me’ (John 10:14).
And in Romans 8, Paul reminds us that nothing can prevent us from having a relationship with Jesus Christ if we accept and get to know him.
Blindness could not prevent the elderly man’s father from knowing him. How good it is to know that no obstacle can prevent us from having a relationship with our heavenly Father!
Prayer: Thank you, dear Lord, for knowing us and for wanting to have a relationship with us. We are grateful that no obstacle can get in the way of your love. Amen
